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Bizarre Trip of a Lifetime ('extreme' American travlers go to N. Korea)
LA Times ^ | November 11, 2005 | By Bruce Wallace, Times Staff Writer

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: idiots; northkorea; socialistparadise
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To: A Russian
Suicide bombers should be hungry,

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!


61 posted on 01/10/2006 7:38:40 PM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: A Russian

Nothin fer nothin, but you are behaving in a ZOTworthy fashion.


62 posted on 01/10/2006 7:40:07 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: A Russian

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?


63 posted on 01/10/2006 7:46:57 PM PST by Darksheare (Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
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To: A Russian
This account has been banned or suspended.

YOU GOT THE ZOT
64 posted on 01/10/2006 7:55:04 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq

Thankfully his comments remain, so he can be viewed for posterity.


65 posted on 01/10/2006 7:56:18 PM PST by Darksheare (Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
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To: Darksheare

yep....

but I fart in his general direction even so.....


66 posted on 01/10/2006 8:00:17 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: Dashing Dasher; A Russian

A Russian, from November last year, was finally shown the door.


67 posted on 01/10/2006 8:01:14 PM PST by Darksheare (Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
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To: MikeinIraq

Somehow I get the sense that it was diesel soaked howitzer propellant instead..
*chuckle*


68 posted on 01/10/2006 8:01:54 PM PST by Darksheare (Beware the waddling Penguin Invaders from Ursa Minor!)
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To: Darksheare

LOL

that works too....


69 posted on 01/10/2006 8:08:59 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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