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“Cut my life into pieces…”
“This is my beach resort”
Fascism
No voting
Don’t care if they destroy the country they’re living.
Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
Context?
Don’t mind me wrong, but looking at what Dubai is doing, I am not surprised Kim thinks people can forget about NK reality for a nice beach.
Hah! Good fucking point! Only thing I guess is that Dubai has a wonnnderful propaganda team winning over the hearts and minds of Western audiences, while NK has synchronized communist dancing events.
Dubai also is smack dab in the middle of “Oil Land”
The middle east oil state meta claims another.
It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.
Oh can we please make this happen?
Hear that conservatives?
You can visit the country you’re trying to make our country look like.
You can get a good long look at what your dipshittery leads to. But only if you have the balls to leave the resort.
I’ll go. The North Korean people are perfectly decent folks.
Does anyone even go to North Korea? Is that like a thing?
A few people have, but it’s not common. https://abcnews.go.com/International/prominent-americans-met-north-korean-leaders/story?id=53635089
They do have a tourism industry, composed of ideological “true believers” (not that big of a group), tourists wanting to experience the unique culture out of curiosity (or - in the more recent years - also to produce social media content), and tourists interested in the unique architecture.
In the overwhelming amount of cases, it also goes well enough, because it is a welcome avenue to get foreign currency for them, and despite what some may believe, the state is still fully within the dynamics of capital accumulation. (Other examples are: contractors in construction, where they have unique know-how in monumental constructions, which is also one of the places where the exploitation of their populace as wage labourers can become visible to the outside world - and selling stamps and other collectibles in demand for being “exotic” as they are from NK.)
But then, every now and again, you have cases like Otto Warmbier.
I tried to go, but had funny pictures of the vice supreme leader and wasn’t allowed in the country…
Should have told him “Thank You”.
America or North Korea, both shit hole countries I’ll avoid
Surprised pikachu x Vance Photoshopped
Some observers say this is an easy way for Pyongyang to earn money. While foreign tourists are allowed in, tour groups largely tend to come from China and Russia, countries with whom Pyongyang has long maintained friendly relations.
Can you imagine being this disconnected on the world perception about yourself and how you run your country? Crazy.
Kim was educated in Europe, not like he’s clueless about the outside world. Also, there’s such a thing as “poverty tourism”. (I forget the word.)
He was educated in prestigious rich cunt schools in fucking Switzerland. He has zero clue about the outside world, the super rich don’t experience any of it, it’s all a sealed little political incest bubble.
All true, but my point was that he’s hardly been isolated in North Korea. He knows there’s an outside world, and to your point, knows how rich it can be.
NK is a bad enough place to visit without worrying about everything. It’s the ultimate in mismanagement.
Management says it must happen, so it happens, or we tell them it’s happened. When someone gets hurt because it actually didn’t happen, there’s a cover up.
Ah yes, the new Mar-a-Lago. Fantastic. I’m sure Trump will be dying to golf there.
At least they already have a tourism industry, not like Turkmenistan is doing it
Interestingly, I’ve recently watched Real Life Lore’s video on the topic. It’s from 2 months ago and later in the video, it talks about the last batch of western foreigners that got in and how the regime almost immediately regretted letting them record and talk as much as they did.
There was also a S. Korean resort ran by Hyundai, from 1998 to 2008, which got shut down and nationalized after an incident had the N. Koreans shoot and kill Park Wang-ja, a 53 year old woman.
