Posted on 11/10/2005 11:36:50 PM PST by Simmy2.5
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Monty Anderson got word that the trip was on two weeks after rushing home to California from Ukraine for emergency open-heart surgery. He didn't ask his doctor if it was OK to take another trip so soon. He told him he was going.
Eighty-year-old Joan Youmans heard about it when she picked up her phone messages after a trip to Indonesia. She canceled a few doctors' appointments and booked immediately.
When Joe Walker learned the trip was a go, he said he "just gave them my credit card number and told them to fill in the amount." Cost him seven grand, he figures.
Such is the allure of North Korea to the "extreme traveler."
Opportunities for American tourists to visit the secretive state that makes no secret of its loathing for the U.S. are mighty tough to come by. A North Korean visa for an American is like round-the-clock electricity here in the North Korean capital: not impossible, but rare enough to be appreciated when it unexpectedly arrives.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
> Yes, you did say that terrorists attack people because they're hungry.
> "It's not an easy thing to make a nuclear bomb, especially if you haven't got food." -post 26
> You are a liar.
No, you are dyslexic. Suicide bombing and making a nuclear bomb are entirely different things, requiring different staff. Suicide bombers should be hungry, but scientists and engineers should be well-fed and supplied.
If you think that a nuclear bomb can be made in a garage, you are braiwashed by Hollywood beyond belief.
"Bizarre trip of a lifetime?!
Heck, just visit Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch."
I heard that the vacation includes a day trip to the Chosin Resevoir where you get to go toe to toe with 10,000 NK ninjas.
There's a free buffet and open bar at noon.
The first stop on the tour, for example, was the towering statue of Kim that overlooks this city. Every visitor was lined up at the base and was expected to bow in homage. All five Americans bowed.
You swine. You filthy leftist swine.
I'll tell you one place you will never visit: my house.
I've been in North Korea--from our side of the DMZ--y'all ain't nuthin' but a silhouette in a night vision scope on a sniper rifle on a cold night high a top a hill in the Chorwon Valley.
I'm not Blix's lawyer.
Yeah, what'/s the deal with two of the three quoted being either elderly or just out of the hospital from major surgery--is this a whole new class of tourist? Still, I wouldn'/t hesitate to go if the opportunity presented itself---but they would have to pay ME 7 thousand dollars.
Wow, Salty, thanks for posting that lengthy narrative on the sailor's direct exposure to North Korea , ( discussion of which , by the way, seems to have "peaked" some time ago in the US). We could use more first-person accounts like that===and thanks for mentioning the "Aquariums of Pyongyang" book---I have been meaning to get ahold of that , and now will.
They can only survive by blaming their failure on someone else. There is no upper limit to the amount of people they would kill to show they are right--
even if they are wrong....
You should be familiar with this idea if you are a Russian?
> They can only survive by blaming their failure on
> someone else. There is no upper limit to the amount of
> people they would kill to show they are right--
> even if they are wrong....
The same applies to your people in Viet Nam or Iraq... There are always some bad guys: Nazis, or Communists, or Islamic Terrorists...
The communists have already given up, while you haven't.
> You should be familiar with this idea if you are a Russian?
As I have already said, the communists have given up.
"I've been in North Korea--from our side of the DMZ--y'all ain't nuthin' but a silhouette in a night vision scope on a sniper rifle on a cold night high a top a hill in the Chorwon Valley."
Now THAT's what I'm talking about!
Hey guys, checkout the funny troll.
(Check his post history too!)
Maybe not, but you're still a troll.
come on troll....try your line of crap with me.....
And the US govt., especially CIA, FBI and other secret police services, do have reasons to promote Islamic terrorism all over the world. It helps weaken Europe and Russia, gives an excuse for invading countries with oil, helps tighten up the screws in your own country. It increases the heroin supplies, which is used to control American Negro population and corrupt foreign countries.
And the US govt., especially CIA, FBI and other secret police services, do have reasons to promote Islamic terrorism all over the world. It helps weaken Europe and Russia, gives an excuse for invading countries with oil, helps tighten up the screws in your own country. It increases the heroin supplies, which is used to control American Negro population and corrupt foreign countries.
Sheesh, who is this dingbat?
Yes, check out "A Russian" and his post 40, and 41.
He is definitely a troll.
The Rosenbergs met Old Sparky.
He's a troll, signed up last year to whine about the war.
He went quiet for awhile.
Came back on the 8th or so.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.