yes aspiring patriot it is infact meta to go to democratic people's republic of korea it is even more meta to stay here until your death and much more meta to work for the glorious supreme leader kim jong-un

I might be missing something here.
People been going to NK for long time to report on it.

Vice News did two that I saw from them. First one was 'look how weird these people are' and the second was 'lets embrace the experience'.

There is a lot of 'try hard' by the people of NK to appear 'normal' and successful.

There are lots of videos of the youtuber travellers going to places around the planet including NK.
Some are good some not so.

My natural way to point out the obvious or my opinion would get me and other people in trouble so I would not visit there.

Don't you mean Best Korea?

North Korea is organizing and promoting tours for western audiences. Heavily guided and moderated, of course. They need the tourism money badly.

Youtubers are the modern prostit***tes of the internet, they do anything for likes and Google money, even eat their own mother, so they obviously apply, disregarding the risks involved.

Of course, they got to improve relations before north and south are united.

Sure thing. If US leaves whole Asia region.
Japan is under US occupation for way too long.
Korea is under occupation since civil war. Vietnam had also the same, but US flee from Vietnam and they reunited.
Singapore need to finaly kick off Brits.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Val:

I randomly searched "North Korea" on youtube, and I saw vids of an American, a Dutch, and a Brit going to North Korea in 2025

I don't believe in coincidences, I think that US and NATO are going to normalize relations with North Korea once the Ukraine war is over

That'd be risky; as N. Korea's a state that's governed extremely sadistically; and a LOT of what is online is constructs, nothing but.

This trend has been going on for years, you can book trips. I have a voice in my head that says this could be a fun expirience and another that says im crazy.

Oprindeligt skrevet af SirSeanicus:

Don't you mean Best Korea?

Just "Korea" is fine.

The only stable civilization in the postmodern world.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dusk of Oolacile:

North Korea is organizing and promoting tours for western audiences. Heavily guided and moderated, of course. They need the tourism money badly.
[...]

I will never trust Kim after what he did to some of our people in the past.
End of story until they get a new leader.

Oprindeligt skrevet af SirSeanicus:

Don't you mean Best Korea?

Yeah, if NATO is going to stabilize relations, we'll need to stop calling that country "North Korea".

Oprindeligt skrevet af MinionJoe:

Oprindeligt skrevet af SirSeanicus:

Don't you mean Best Korea?

Yeah, if NATO is going to stabilize relations, we'll need to stop calling that country "North Korea".

What do you have against North Carolina and North Dakota?

To most people... having "North" in the name,
is just a geographical designation, not anything derogatory.

Never understood why East Virginia gets to be so special, but whatever.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ｋiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

Oprindeligt skrevet af MinionJoe:

Yeah, if NATO is going to stabilize relations, we'll need to stop calling that country "North Korea".

What do you have against North Carolina and North Dakota?

To most people... having "North" in the name,
is just a geographical designation, not anything derogatory.

Never understood why East Virginia gets to be so special, but whatever.

"North Carolina" and "North Dakota" are the given names of those states.

North Korea does not identify itself as "North Korea". They are the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Much like China does not recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan, The DPRK does not recognize South Korea's.

At least, they didn't up until they reclassified South Korea as a "hostile state".

Oprindeligt skrevet af MinionJoe:

[...] North Korea does not identify itself as "North Korea".
They are the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. [...]

And Germany is Deutschland and Japan is Nippon.