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Getting into North Korea: the Vice Guide
« on: March 07, 2010, 07:17:06 AM »
This is probably the most surreal thing I've ever seen.  Basically, this crew that normally does insider travel guides for an online TV channel decides to try and get into North Korea.  And they do.

And then the weirdness begins.

There's three parts, and it's about an hour long total.  Also may have some NSFW language:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

I knew North Korea was pretty messed up, but damn...and that's just how they present themselves to outsiders. =|
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Re: Getting into North Korea: the Vice Guide
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2010, 08:53:49 AM »
We had some natty geo journalists get into NK for a story.

Editing that video was an experience.
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Re: Getting into North Korea: the Vice Guide
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2010, 09:42:26 AM »
That is both freaky and incredibly sad.

Welcome to most of human history though, I think we are the anomaly.
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Re: Getting into North Korea: the Vice Guide
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2010, 12:36:23 PM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on March 07, 2010, 08:53:49 AM
We had some natty geo journalists get into NK for a story.

Editing that video was an experience.

The one where they slipped in with the eye surgeon?  You edited that?
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Re: Getting into North Korea: the Vice Guide
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2010, 02:41:17 PM »
I've heard that a person with $2000 - a giant pile of valuta for them -can get out of NK. So, supposedly, a North Korean gets out, and starts working in SK to earn money for a relative back home. Then the relative gets out - and the North Koreans are supposedly excellent, hard-working dudes and get on very well once they get into the South.

True or not, I don't know.
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