It might not get weirder than this

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[chessplayer]

Disclaimer: I am a North Korea amateur and can only share what it's like to be part of a NK-bound delegation. Straightforward trip report here: no discussion of meeting details or intentions--just some informal observations.

[GOPJ]

We’re jet-lagged. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didn’t get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on…

Totalitarian Dream Land.... Is Homeland Security sending 'troops' over to get training from these folks?

[Standing Wolf]

Obama’s dream world!

His socialist dream is America's nightmare.

[VRW Conspirator]

They made sure to show us the American-style fast food restaurant, though their timing appeared to be off: the place was shuttered when we arrived. Workers scrambled to put on aprons and turn on the lights.

I lovin' it!

[irishtenor]

***Disclaimer: I am a North Korea amateur and can only share what it's like to be part of a NK-bound delegation***

How does it feel to be a amateur North Korean?

[Winstons Julia]

“After the visitors left, they were marched out and it was back to border duty...”

I just got a great idea for having illegals earn citizenship here in the USA...

[GeronL]

some people actually want to visit that prison?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Creepy Pictures From The Hidden 5th Floor Of A North Korean Hotel
http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-kim-jong-unkim-jong-il-hidden-fifth-floor-yanggakdo-hotel-pyongyang2011-12?op=1

[GeronL]

those people were there for show...”hey look we have internet too”

[Revolting cat!]

Because the Leaders are god-like figures, when one provides "on-site guidance" (which they always can, because they are experts in all things) it's like a benediction.

That's no different from our leaders and their Hollywood celebrity friends.

[GeronL]

Yes, they were monitored at those cry-athons and if they did not show up in public at least twice to grieve, they and their families could be shipped off to death camps.

So, yes, they better cry.

[GeronL]

can I be on that Peng list?

[Jack Hydrazine]

National Geographic - Inside North Korea (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9xxjU_qjdQ

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUDv1TRJLg

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFrhthA6ZQ

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F2urskhloA

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bPlimRi4jo

[BBell]

I love the vice guide to north Korea and I consider it the best view of NK I’ve ever seen. I still wonder how those guys made it out alive.

[BBell]

Oh, and the tea girl was cute as a button.

[Noob1999]

Question???

What do the Norks eat when snow covers the dirt????

[Third Person]

Epic journalism.... the fear and the anxiety and the balls.

[Revolting cat!]

Fascinating. Watched part 1, on to parts 2 & 3.

[Newbomb Turk]

An old vet told me years ago that we should bomb them with playboy magazine, transistor radios and cold Budweiser

[Revolting cat!]

Good comment - epic journalism indeed. Compare to Dan Rather et al hugging Fidel. How did they manage to get away with it?

[LifeComesFirst]

There is a fantastic book (actually a comic book but don’t let hat deter you) written by a French Canadian cartoonist about his experiences in North Korea (they have limited commercial activity with, among other things, European animation studios).

I strongly encourage you to seek it out.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(comics)