what the H was this kid doing in NK in the first place?
There is no sane reason to ever travel to that He!!hole.
There are roughly 4,000 non-Chinese/non-South Korean tourists who enter North Korea yearly.
One group of thirty-odd German railroad enthusiasts went in 2014 and a documentary was made over the group’s visit. Some people go just to visit the sixteen subway stations in Pyongang (all resemble some Hollywood-like subway station out of the 1950s). There’s some supposed to be some new ski-resort being built and they were talking about 50,000 people a year flying into it...but pictures from April of this year showed the world-class resort virtually empty.
In some ways, if they had some benevolent dictator who wasn’t killing people left and right....they’d be sitting on a tourist gold-mine. There would be a dozen flights weekly between Pyongyang and New York City, with Americans begging for a week of vacation in some ‘oppressive regime’. They could make this in one giant Disneyland and make ten-billion dollars a year on tourism easily.
I can think of one reason to travel to that hellhole.
People travel there ....three govt sanctioned tour companies from Peking to Pyongyang
About 100,000 folks a year
Kid was naive at worst.....died for it
Very sad.....to me anyhow