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Group Behind Otto Warmbier’s North Korea Trip Won’t Bring More Americans
ncnews.com ^ | 6/20/17 | ap

Posted on 06/20/2017 1:04:34 PM PDT by ColdOne

BEIJING — The organizers of a trip to North Korea by an American college student who died after being released from prison in a coma say they will no longer take U.S. citizens to the country.

Young Pioneer Tours said Tuesday on its Facebook page that the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier shows that the risk American tourists face in visiting North Korea "has become too high

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nk; nktourgroup; otto; ottowarmbier; warmbier; warmbiertourgroup; youngpioneertours
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1 posted on 06/20/2017 1:04:34 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Risk has become too high?? Talk about understatement..........


2 posted on 06/20/2017 1:06:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ColdOne

Idiots at the Young Pioneer Tour should have known it was dangerous for Americans long before this incident.


3 posted on 06/20/2017 1:08:10 PM PDT by PJBankard
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The risk is been too high since the late 40s. Are these people retarded?

I’ve worked all over the world mostly in third world countries and I have to tell you, there are very few places I would travel to for enjoyment. Some places I wouldn’t go on a dare.


4 posted on 06/20/2017 1:09:25 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: ColdOne

Gotta love reaction before proaction.

Someone please close the barn door now.


5 posted on 06/20/2017 1:11:46 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: ColdOne

Duh! The light finally flickers on and stays on.
I don’t know if Otto’s family encouraged him to go or not.
It would not surprise me. My sympathies for their loss. Nothing hurts like losing a close family member.


6 posted on 06/20/2017 1:11:59 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ColdOne

20 year olds are not the only ones who take big risks traveling to countries like North Korea.

I have met many 70 year olds who have traveled to places like Iran, Libya, or Somalia.

One of the reasons they traveled to these hotspots is cheap hotel rooms and restaurants.


7 posted on 06/20/2017 1:13:03 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Clutch Martin

Did anyone else observe two year old footage of the guy to look as though he was much older than 22? 20 at the time?


8 posted on 06/20/2017 1:13:40 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: ColdOne

Young Pioneers. Sounds like the old USSR version of the Boy Scouts. Probably appropriate for trips to NK.


9 posted on 06/20/2017 1:15:26 PM PDT by canalabamian
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To: Clutch Martin

[The risk is been too high since the late 40s. Are these people retarded?]

No kidding. Did they ever hear of the Korean War?

If they hadn’t figured this about by about 1950......


10 posted on 06/20/2017 1:16:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: ColdOne

The trip to North Korea is tightly controlled and all you get is Propaganda and Drunken Minders


11 posted on 06/20/2017 1:17:08 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Doesn’t travel to North Korea require State Department approvals? One does not just press a button and get a Visa for entry and exit from North Korea and then entryback into the U.S.


12 posted on 06/20/2017 1:17:47 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Doesn’t travel to North Korea require State Department approvals? One does not just press a button and get a Visa for entry and exit from North Korea and then entryback into the U.S.


13 posted on 06/20/2017 1:17:54 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: lee martell

If he had been my kid I’d have locked him in the basement before letting him go.


14 posted on 06/20/2017 1:18:44 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: lee martell

He had planned to study abroad in his third year of college in China and heard about Chinese travel companies offering trips to North Korea. His parents were OK with it.

“Otto’s a young, thrill-seeking, great kid who was going to be in that part of the world for a college experience,” Fred Warmbier explained.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/north-korea-back-otto-warmbiers-strange-sad-trip-48113955


15 posted on 06/20/2017 1:19:00 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne
The name Young Pioneers should have been a red flag--pun intended.
16 posted on 06/20/2017 1:20:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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It’s fine to go to a cheap hotel and restaurant when you travel. But, what do they do in Libya or Somalia? Do they have tourist attractions, along with tourism infrastructure?


17 posted on 06/20/2017 1:20:32 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ColdOne

Yeah BS. They work for North Korea as a fishing expedition. They purposely misled those kids into telling them it was safe and then baiting them by saying “The country your parents don’t want you to go to”. This was all a scam, everything about it. The “theft” of the poster, Warmbier didn’t steal anything. His friends and family said he wasn’t that kind of guy, the video the North Koreans showed is all blurry, we never see his face. He was set up and probably told if he didn’t admit to it he would be executed - which they did anyway.


18 posted on 06/20/2017 1:22:53 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: ColdOne

I thought that NK was the ideal utopian state that all Leftists in the Deep State and mainstream media aspire to become.


19 posted on 06/20/2017 1:23:54 PM PDT by grumpygresh (When will Soros be brought to justice? Crush the vermin, crush the Left.)
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To: canalabamian

WAPO has more about Young Pioneers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-otto-warmbiers-death-tourism-to-north-korea-comes-under-scrutiny/2017/06/20/e0e7fa20-55ab-11e7-9e18-968f6ad1e1d3_story.html?utm_term=.edda7757c907

Young Pioneer Tours was founded in 2008 by Gareth Johnson, a 36-year-old British man who has a large red tattoo on his left arm showing the Communist hammer and sickle that — along with a calligraphy brush — are the emblem of North Korea’s ruling party. The brush is replaced by a machine gun in his tattoo.

“I realized there was nothing in the way of a budget company that catered for the demographic of people who would not usually do ‘group tours,’ so felt I could combine my love of travel with my newfound love for the people and culture of the DPRK!” Johnson says on the company’s website, using the abbreviation for North Korea’s official name.


20 posted on 06/20/2017 1:24:29 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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