Running the (half) marathon in North Korea

> But as Roeland Loof, a Dutch fellow runner says in this New York Times article: “In the U.S. and Europe, we’re as brainwashed as they are here.” Is there a better or a worse? Hard to say, it always depends on who you are and where you look from.

I suppose this sort of hogwash is how he justifies to himself handing the North Korean a large wad of money for something as self-indulgent as doing some tourism and running there.