• Jack
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    9813 days ago

    I tried to go, but had funny pictures of the vice supreme leader and wasn’t allowed in the country…

  • @khaleer@sopuli.xyz
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    4512 days ago

    Don’t mind me wrong, but looking at what Dubai is doing, I am not surprised Kim thinks people can forget about NK reality for a nice beach.

    • Ann Archy
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      1612 days ago

      Hah! Good fucking point! Only thing I guess is that Dubai has a wonnnderful propaganda team winning over the hearts and minds of Western audiences, while NK has synchronized communist dancing events.

  • NotAGamer
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    3113 days ago

    Only a moron would want to visit North Korea where Kim Jung Un will have you killed for saying anything negative about him or the country.

  • Lexam
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    2713 days ago

    It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.

    • @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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      1913 days ago

      Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.

      • Jack
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        113 days ago

        You are talking about a fellow human being…

        • @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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          1013 days ago

          Yes, which is why it’s important for them to realize what they’re getting themselves into. Did Warmbier deserve what happened to him? Absolutely not, but knowing what happened and still going over there to play tourist means you’ve understood, accepted and internalized the possible risk. I will reserve my tears for the many thousands of people who get into trouble through no fault of their own.

          • @slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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            312 days ago

            When i went to Singapore, people told me that they arrest you there if you spit on the street or litter and find just any kind of drugs on you. I was like cool, i’m not doing all these things anyway and when i go somewhere i adjust myself to the country. Same goes for NK. You know where you are going, and even if the laws are stupid and no one deserves what he got, everyone who takes secret pictures or takes stuff they don’t want you to can expect the worst. Personally i would love to go to see NK, and i wouldn’t break any of their stupid laws, but i also don’t trust them enough and assume they can and will jail you anyway if they really want to.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      513 days ago

      Kim was educated in Europe, not like he’s clueless about the outside world. Also, there’s such a thing as “poverty tourism”. (I forget the word.)

      • Ann Archy
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        He was educated in prestigious rich cunt schools in fucking Switzerland. He has zero clue about the outside world, the super rich don’t experience any of it, it’s all a sealed little political incest bubble.

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          112 days ago

          All true, but my point was that he’s hardly been isolated in North Korea. He knows there’s an outside world, and to your point, knows how rich it can be.

  • @Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    1712 days ago

    What kind of fucking idiot builds a highway between the hotels and the beach?

    Thats the fucking stupidest thing I have ever seen in my life. Who ever thought that was a good idea should be shot. It couldn’t be in a worse place.

      • @morphballganon@lemmy.world
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        512 days ago

        Highways don’t have crosswalks, and drivers can expect to have very few stoplights (compared to freeways, which should have exactly 0 stoplights or pedestrians whatsoever).

        Streets can have frequent crosswalks and stoplights.

        Sooo having a street between hotels and a beach would be no biggie, since guests could safely cross it on foot, at a crosswalk.

        But with a highway there, you cannot safely cross on foot. No crosswalks. Or if there’s something that looks like a crosswalk, it sure wouldn’t feel safe to cross it.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1612 days ago

    Hear that conservatives?

    You can visit the country you’re trying to make our country look like.

    You can get a good long look at what your dipshittery leads to. But only if you have the balls to leave the resort.

  • @CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1513 days ago

    NK is a bad enough place to visit without worrying about everything. It’s the ultimate in mismanagement.

    Management says it must happen, so it happens, or we tell them it’s happened. When someone gets hurt because it actually didn’t happen, there’s a cover up.