I did. Good stuff, very entertaining, but, at the same time, depressing.
+1 Neo
Please do go. Please come back and tell us what you saw. Keep your mouth shut beyond the minimum to be polite, etc. and don’t get any locals there in trouble or antagonize the minders. Don’t wear any kind of statement clothing. Dress respectfully.
Clayton -
seconded, go, but be careful about what you do.
it’s not Mordor
True, the orcs didn’t have to eat each other to avoid starvation. : /
… Personally, I don’t think I would go. I’d love to see a socialist dystopia first-hand, but then…well…I’d have to actually be present in a socialist dystopia. Regardless, I’ll certainly be interested in hearing about it if you do go.
It’s not Mordor in the sense it’s not a staging ground for world conquest. OP’s country (“airstrip one”) fits the bill much more closely here. If I were OP I’d be much more worried about the money going to the satanic government he is living under. If you’re British and really concerned about the situation the North Koreans are in then be a man and try to do something about the UN, EU and UK sanctions on North Korea up and to refusing to pay your taxes to the British state. Don’t patronize and insult them by offering them false pitty by ostensibly worrying about where your pitiful contribution to the North Korean state budget is going to end up and how is it going to cause the poor little, hapless and agentless Northern Koreans to be further repressed by their evil, foreign, Asiatic government. Fuck your white burden and your self-righteous boicotts. Establishing your righteousness by refusing contact with exotic, foreign governments? How fucking refreshing. Why don’t you get a pair of sandals and a Free Tibet sticker and boicott Brazilian coffe because they’re cutting down the Amazonian, all the while your own government milks you for money to help fund bloodletting from Libya to Afghanistan? When you pay your taxes in Liechtenstein then you can worry about stuff like this, until then you’re already paying for worse so at least don’t be a hypocrite and shut the hell up.
Marko, for one, I’ve moved. I live in Hong Kong.
For two, I’m 21 (just), I’ve contributed hardly anything in tax, and it will stay that way for the rest of my life.
Three, do you live in a black and white world? Just because (of circumstances of which I have no control) of X, I’m not allowed to think Y? I don’t know where you’re from, but unless it’s Rapture, you’re not allowed to have any kind of opinion or second thought about those living in a 100% state society. If you do, you best head out with your “occupy” gear, now. Wouldn’t want your false pity.
Douche.
EDIT: Not that I want to rag on about this shit, but I found your post so enraging, that I’d like to point out that thanks to me, my granddad hasn’t paid income tax in over a year, and I’ve encourage my parents to pay as little tax as possible. Hell, when I worked at McDonald’s I even worked for less-than-minimum wage for about 4 months, why? Because I still valued by earnings more than my free time, and I wasn’t going to use the state to coerce them into paying me more. In the end, I worked hard enough, and got a pay rise.
google vice north korea
you can see the vice journalists document their trip. its bizarre. I think the vice journalist might have banged some north korean women…who worked at this place where they hadn’t had human contact in 6 months. she was very cute.
I’d go, but I personally value curiosity a lot higher than personal safety. I’d keep my beliefs to myself, though. Nothing good could possibly come from being explicit. In terms of encouraging eventual change, I’m convinced that’ll happen on its own.
Thanks, so it was effective. I like moving people in my posts.
That’s wonderful. But would you have the same moral qualms about visiting the United States of America for a few days and in this way contributing to the destruction of lives by the US government? Would you open a topic on this forum to ask for opinion of people on whether it is morally upstanding to do so? Be honest with yourself. If you would then it’s cool and you do not need to find yourself in my post, but if you would not then that’s a double standard and I wanted to point that out and give you some food for thought.
As something Minarchist has alluded to the North Korean government bears the primary responsibility for the deaths of 600,000 people in an avoidable famine in 1997-98. The US government by the same token bears the primary responsibility for the deaths of up to 1,000,000 people in Iraq due to disease and malnutrition between 1991 and 2003, and also recently contributed to the famine in Somalia as well as to the aforementioned famine in North Korea (sanctions). The US government estimates the North Korean political prisoner population stands at 150,000, but herself unjustly imprisons hundreds of thousands of people in the racist war on drugs.
Not now but they will be at an advantage if my vision was correct. They’re going to be neutral in the coming war while the Final Communist countries are going to kill each other after they defeat the Neo-Fascist countries or part of them. It will kind of be like the second enlightenment, but it won’t be everywhere at the same time. I believe that the pro-secession countries will be the place to be. However, there will be disagreements on them because they’ll become statists when they aren’t as pure as they thought they were… for example, the Paleo basques were simply more Basque than the modern basques… if they use violence to secede, they may become the Neo Basques. I believe the modern basques want to secede. See my thread about Bibil and it may get you thinking. It may just turn into a fight between the muslim and non-muslim world as I think Israelites are coming to reason after seeing “Netanyahu”. I hope I’ll never be a sword or even a tool like George Washington was and I worry about that… I don’t want to become the next statist like Romney I’m less than 1/4 natural and I hate myself for it.
Yes, you should visit North Korea. When you go, the government will assign two “escorts” to you. Two, to make sure that the other isnt bribed by you. You can only visit certain parts of the country, so don’t expect much. The escorts are in fact to prevent you from taking pictures or socializing with the common people. Go spread LVM ideas through your clothing. Great idea.
Actually, it doesnt matter about what you speak. The two escorts assigned by the government will block any attempt from you to talk to the common people. Pictures are rarely allowed outside of Pyongyang, the city of the elite, and the city in which it is pampered to please the visitor’s eyes. If you are allowed by thye government to visit other regions (rarely happens), keep a camera in you bag with a hole in it and covertly take pictures. Cameras ARE allowed, but only in the capital city. And seriously, don’t worry about bugging. China has cut off fuel supplies to North Korea years ago, and they don’t even have electricity to spare for bugging. Therefore, intelligence and monitoring is done by the people and neighbors with the incentive of food and rewards if you snitch someone out.
If you feel like your safety is personally threatened, do not go. Otherwise, I’ve had some friends who have gone there and have returned unharmed. So I would do it. Also, no talking smack or anything like that - stay strictly within the lines.
From what I saw in a documentary - pay your “respects” to “the dear leader.” That will lighten up your experience by 2000%.
It’s not Mordor in the sense it’s not a staging ground for world conquest.
Ok.
OP’s country (“airstrip one”) fits the bill much more closely here.
Ok.
If I were OP I’d be much more worried about the money going to the satanic government he is living under.
Money to Satanic government A, money to Satanic government B. Meh.
If you’re British and really concerned about the situation the North Koreans are in then be a man and try to do something about the UN, EU and UK sanctions on North Korea up and to refusing to pay your taxes to the British state. Don’t patronize and insult them by offering them false pitty by ostensibly worrying about where your pitiful contribution to the North Korean state budget is going to end up and how is it going to cause the poor little, hapless and agentless Northern Koreans to be further repressed by their evil, foreign, Asiatic government.
How exactly does one “man up” and try to influence his government? Is the likelyhood of the success of such a venture more or less pitiful than the influence which a tourist’s budget would have on N. Korean state finances?
Fuck your white burden and your self-righteous boicotts.
White guilt? Huh?
Establishing your righteousness by refusing contact with exotic, foreign governments?
LOL, exotic? Like “win an 3 day 4 night vacation in exotic Hades.”
How fucking refreshing. Why don’t you get a pair of sandals and a Free Tibet sticker and boicott Brazilian coffe because they’re cutting down the Amazonian,
…why?
all the while your own government milks you for money to help fund bloodletting from Libya to Afghanistan?
Most folks prefer not being in federal prision to being in federal prision, and therefore pay their taxes. It follows they shouldn’t comment on the injustice of foreign political arrangements? I don’t see why…
When you pay your taxes in Liechtenstein then you can worry about stuff like this, until then you’re already paying for worse so at least don’t be a hypocrite and shut the hell up.
Again, why should someone forced to fund Western injustices avoid commenting on Eastern injustices. Non sequitur. How is there any hypocrisy? Is it hypocrisy when a rape victim talks about how bad other rapes are?
Before I waste my time answering your vapid and unecessary questions, I’ll give you a day to re-read my post, this time actually in context. Maybe you’ll succeed in seeing how superflous and tiresome they are and I won’t have to waste my time thinking for you.
Before I waste my time answering your vapid and unecessary questions, I’ll give you a day to re-read my post, this time actually in context. Maybe you’ll succeed in seeing how superflous and tiresome they are and I won’t have to waste my time thinking for you.
The point of my questions was to capture the sillyness of your little temper-tantrum. Feel free not to answer the questions, as they were essentially rhetorical anyway.
Yeah, I have double standards, so what?
In the sense that they won’t fail to apply their laws to you, yeah 
It may not be ‘rightful’ necessarily tho. Probably should’ve left that qualifier out.
I would go. Provided you are assured of your security. The moral questions are irrelevant. You are not joining their army. You should go and try to learn anything and everything you can about them. Especially since you have the perspective of an Austrian. Its a rare opportunity and you should not miss it. Just ask Avery Jessup for precautions before you go.