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.
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But then they won't make that satisfying splat sound when they pull the cord too soon.
A skinny chickensh*t is no fun at all!
Nothin fer nothin, but you are behaving in a ZOTworthy fashion.
Hey liar, you said in post 26:
"It's not an easy thing to make a nuclear bomb, especially if you haven't got food."
So terrorists attack because they're hungry?
Where's all that U.N. aid going then?
HMMMM?
Thankfully his comments remain, so he can be viewed for posterity.
yep....
but I fart in his general direction even so.....
A Russian, from November last year, was finally shown the door.
Somehow I get the sense that it was diesel soaked howitzer propellant instead..
*chuckle*
LOL
that works too....
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