Fuck you too Robert.
Anyway I just love how he used that photo of Madeline Pendleton to make her look as unhinged as possible when she is incredibly intelligent and well read. She always has sources for her videos so I don’t know what his problem is, sorry that the DPRK isn’t the hell scape you want it to be. God forbid people share facts about the country instead of Western lies.
I love the implication that the DPRK could even pay Western propagandists. It’s not like the most sanctioned country on earth can just Venmo you money. At most you could travel to the southern tip of China and perhaps Pyongyang could put some gold bars on a raft and float it over the Yalu River.
Or you could visit pyongyang.
Well, I forgot to clarify: “As a US American citizen.”
Nothing is stopping American citizens from visiting Pyongyang. It’s not forbidden or illegal by the US or DPRK. You just can’t travel directly to North Korea with an American passport, and have to travel from China. You also won’t receive any diplomatic help in the case of an emergency.
Didn't Trump put a travel ban to the DPRK for those with American passports?
That’s the caveat I was referring to, it’s illegal to fly directly to the DPRK with an American passport, but that was done to make it unprofitable for airlines to operate DPRK routes. You can simply fly to China and then cross the border by land.
It also gives the state department plausible deniability to refuse diplomatic support since you technically weren’t supposed to be there.
However there is no concrete ban, and it’s not enforced at all, which is why the US doesn’t really care about the few thousand US tourists that take tours through the DPRK each year.
Could you give me a source on this? Tour guide operators like Young Pioneer Tours don't offer tours to Americans because of the legal risk:
Also, Korean advocacy groups like Nodutdol speak out widely against the travel ban because it completely bars native Koreans from visiting their homelands: https://nodutdol.org/end-travel-ban/
If it really is true that US passport holders can visit the DPRK without repercussions, that that's a game changer and in that case I do hope to visit one day. Everything I've seen suggests otherwise though.