Comments on: N. Korea tours ’selling like hotcakes’

By: Max Watson

Max Watson — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:45:02 +0000

I’ve been wanting to go for months now, just need to gather up the funds for it. Sure $500 is steep, but that’s the price of bragging rights.

By: Kunsanpcv

Kunsanpcv — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:57:37 +0000

In a perverse way, it might be worth paying the $500 a day to see such a ‘mass game.’ The reasonis that you can see such thing in only one place (no other society in the world wastes as much time and energy on such silliness) and probably for only a few more years will this be available. Once the regime collapses you will never be able to witness sucha thing again.

By: michael

michael — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:42:06 +0000

Maybe they can cut a deal with S. Korea: tourists bring in special paper and ink, and N. Korea prints up Benjamins to pay for the tour. Win-win deal.

If that sounds far-fetched, read this: http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....40018.html

By: thorin

thorin — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:25:56 +0000

I’d rather pay $500 and get a show than pay for the reconstruction of the north. I might go twice.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:46:51 +0000

An escorted, tightly controlled short trip to see a dance performance in Pyongyang would be as disappointing as the views from Dandong and Tumen, China of shabby concrete buildings, silent ferris wheels, and rusting naval boats across the Yalu and Tumen Rivers.

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:47:59 +0000

The show incorporates a cast of 100,000 performing synchronized movements in a 150,000-seat stadium and is by most accounts an eye-popping spectacle.

I don’t know why, but this comment freaks me out.

Still, toss in a game of ping-pong to the death with KJI and I’m there.

By: thegoodbubba

thegoodbubba — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:33:17 +0000

I with snow. The reason it is 500 a day is because KJI wants foreign currency. AS much as I would like to see that surreal place, I can not in good conscious do anythign that will prop up his regime.

By: snow

snow — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:31:21 +0000

It would be great to see the place, but I think I’ll wait until after reunification when my money won’t go to the pudgy piece of shiite. But then again, I may be waiting for a very long, long time.

By: kushibo

kushibo — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:16:49 +0000

It’d be worth $500 a day to see the Hermit Kingdom upclose and personal.
Hmmm, where should I go first, Dokdo or the DPRK?

In both places you run the risk of getting stuck for an indefinite period of time.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:03:22 +0000

I love that Yonhap story — “foreign agents” took photos of a nonexistent drug factory in N.K., and the part about the fake money: “Then they let these notes find their ways to the DPRK (North Korea) and go out of it in the course of commercial transaction….”

I’d just like to hang out with some foreigners at a bar in Pyongyang and trade war stories — I bet we would find ourselves relating very similar experiences