Posted on 07/30/2016 10:13:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Welcome to Asia’s Latest Organic Retreat: North Korea
Charlie Campbell / Dandong and Beijing
July 29, 2016
For many Chinese, much of North Korea's allure is its resemblance to a simpler China, harking back to a time before mass industrialization and commercialization
New Yorkers flock to ashrams in the Appalachian Mountains, Europeans to refurbished hermitages in the Umbrian countryside, but where do Asians go to get away from it all? Sure, there are Balinese yoga retreats and meditation centers run by Nepali beekeepers. But for a growing number of Chinese, the ultimate escape is the ultimate in oppression: North Korea.
To be clear, North Korea isn’t suddenly a land of milk-and-honey baths, and woe betide anyone who requests a chemical peel at a Pyongyang hotel. But a corollary of being the most isolated place on earth is utter sequestration from modern banes. And ever more Chinese visitors are making the short hop across the Yalu River out of curiosity, but coming back for the peace of mind they find.
“Without cell phone, computer or any modern communications, the feeling of isolation lets me find peace,” history teacher Bai Xuejiao, 28, tells TIME. “You can totally relax about the food safety there. North Korean food has no additives — even if they want to, they don’t have the technology to make them.”
Of course, Orwellian societal controls don’t lend themselves to a relaxing vacay, and the totalitarian regime of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un isn’t known for its laissez-faire attitude even to holiday snaps — which, if taken of founding father Kim Il Sung’s statue, must be front on and well-framed. There are also serious ethical questions about funneling cash to what’s considered the world’s most repressive regime, under which 25 million people live under the imminent threat of ...
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“Sustainable”
Maybe the chinese visitors can get a serene trip to the NK prison camp gulags of torture while on vacay there.
What is this cr6p? NK nice place? Dictatorship wonderful? Pfft. Globalist cr9p.
... reminds them of the good ole days.
I can grock it
We can not really imagine the pressure of existing in the bustle of Shanghai......
Going to North Korea is like living in the back of Carlsbad Caverns or Mammoth cave. Isolation, quiet, peaceful isolation.
However...... not for me
Because NK has no food!
I have a 25 acre parcel of land adjoining the Charlevoix Rod and Gun Club two miles from my house. There is a field running down the middle of about 3 acres, and when I want some solitude, I go out there with with my tent, cooler, Jeep, some food, (including jerky of course), and sit around my fire-pit and watch the stars and satellites to my heart’s content.
“Excuse me, could I purchase second helping of—”
“NO ADDITIVES!!!”
For some reason the 1980s Come Back To Jamaica commercials come to mind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuJUm9-0Mxk
Just tweak it for North Korea. I am sure some creative minds here could make up something funny.
Thank you TLR.
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