Posted on 09/01/2011 7:50:41 PM PDT by nuconvert
The least luxurious cruise in the world: North Korea launches its first liner (where cabins are shared and the ship is rusty)
The liner is rusty, the cabins are cramped and the Captain's Table is a help yourself buffet. But though the surroundings are less than glamorous, North Korea hopes to launch itself into the world of cruising with ageing liner the Mangyongbong.
The former cargo ship set sail on its maiden tour yesterday carrying about 130 passengers from the rundown port of Rajin, near the China-Russia border. Some 500 North Koreans, about half dressed in dark workers clothes and the others in office and traditional attire, waved off the ship in a choreographed performance on the pot-holed dock.
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the buffet?
on a North Koreean cruise ship 8-?
watch the patrons fight over the toothpicks and table coverings.
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And the dust bunnies.
I hope they have enough life boats.
The Ruv Boat, for the Ronery!
A cruise ship in North Korea?????
I wonder if Kim Il Sung is turning in his grave at the sight of North Korea embracing the capitalist decadence of a cruise ship. Even a rusty hulk of a ship. Who knew that they could conceive of the idea of a pleasure cruise???
Next thing you know, North Korea might embrace some capitalist reforms, as did China. So much for communism.............
The plastic tables and chairs from Dollar General are a nice touch!
Let me guess
You are chained naked to bench, given an oar to pull, while a guy with a whip lashes you on your bare back
Mealtime is bowl of slop
Where do you signup...?
Look at the name——Mangy ong bong
LOL this is a joke right?
The press gang has to row.
1st prize: a “21-hour overnight cruise,”
2nd prize: a 3 day, 2 night cruise
It’s all a show. Nothing in that Potemkin Village is real.
Oh, I see you fly United, too.
dogmeat with kimchee would be heaven for most NorKs, they barely get enough rice to survive. Meat, even dogmeat, is pretty rare.
North Korean TV apparently airs a few hours an evening, almost all old propaganda films.
No cameras allowed.
The buffet includes organic imported grasses,well aged roadkill,a pea and all the fish you can catch[except for the 90% share you must “donate” to the Dear Leader]
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