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martinpil · Joined: 03 Dec 2008

can non-koreans travel to north korea?

michaelambling · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Location: Paradise

candyteacher · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Location: where ever i want

As far as i know, Americans can only go to DPRK during the arirang game which i believe are august 1st through september 30th this year, and it used to be pretty difficult.

but i do think that you can go to keasong and mt. kumgang (just across the border) from south korea.

not sure if this is fact, it may have changed!!

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

Yeah, go to NK on an absurdly over-priced tour. That way your money will go to supporting KJI's lascivious lifestyle as well as the Nork troops who have their weapons pointed at the South. Great idea.

Wait until the despicable regime falls and is replaced by something less disgusting, THEN travel to NK. Any non-Korean going on these tours is moral retard.

michaelambling · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Location: Paradise

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Very moving video. All 1 hour and 6 minutes of it. Sort of like a page turner. I literally couldn't stop watching it. Thanks for the link michaelambling.

This is precisely why I won't go to North Korea. KJI won't get one red cent from me if I can help it.

Anyone contemplating going to North Korea should be ashamed of themselves. South Koreans and Westerners alike.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

calm the hell down guys!!

visiting north korea on a tour is not supporting that evil regieme you talk about. if people were to take that approach then we should not visit
Cuba, Myanmar, Iran, etc... etc....

give me a break...

by going to north korea on a short over priced tour is hardly going to fed the million troop army KJI has!

Im going to go to North Korea! probably this year or the next!
I don't care how my money is spent! because Im sure what ever they were going to spend it on my 3 million won is not the matter of getting it or not!

I consider it a privilege to visit the North, one of the only countries which can not be visited so easily! pretty much you need to be invited.

Its not like you buy a return ticket and it ends up being a one way ticket and they never let you leave!

how many tourists actually go into North Korea every year???
not enough to support the army believe me...

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Traveling to NK does not delay its demise. It will collapse or succeed based on other factors, whether 1 million people go a year or 0.

Thewhiteyalbum · Joined: 13 Nov 2008

michaelambling · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Location: Paradise

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

If you know all of the facts and you still just gotta go to North Korea, I say GO!

With a one way ticket. Rolling Eyes

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Yep. It's all about bragging rights isn't it Itaewonguy? Look at me, I'm special. I went to North Korea! Your attitude is as selfish as can be.

Anyone who travels to North Korea on any tour is supporting and extending the misery and suffering of the North Korean people. Period.

I have never been to Cuba or Myanmar and I never plan to go until those brutal regimes fall. My principles are the same in those cases.

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Kaeseong and Gumgansan (spelling?) are now closed. Kaeseong closed to tourist from S. Korea on Dec 1, 2008.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I don't see the attraction.

From all reports the food sucks, the nightlife is terrible and the guides will only show a succession of monuments.

Definitely one destination that's only good for bragging rights.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

I won't go visit the N-Kimberlies because I'd have to buy a smaller lens for my camera - 135 mm is the limit (mine goes to 200 mm). I guess they're afraid I might catch the Great Leader 'off guard' and picking his nose on the billion to one chance he'd appear in public where I was being herded around by my 'minders'.

Besides, for W3,000,000 I can fly to, and live like a king in Bali for two months.