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PeteRRJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:42am
Young Pioneer Tours is an adventure travel company formed in 2008 and based in mainland China. Specialising in travel to North Korea, we are an adventure tour operator that provides “budget tours to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from”.

Sometimes, Mom is right.
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  SpringSprungPeteRR
  3/16/16 10:46am
  She usually is
  
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  DavidPuddyPeteRR
  3/16/16 10:47am
  Seriously. Who in their right minds wants to go to North Korea?
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Ed SpockJordan Sargent
3/16/16 11:03am
Travel tips for Americans going to North Korea

1. DO NOT FUCKING GO TO NORTH KOREA!!!!

2. If you choose to ignore rule #1, then do everything you are told to do by your minders TO THE FUCKING LETTER. Don’t try to sneak off to some restricted area. Don’t try to snap some forbidden pictures. Don’t steal some little trinket as a kind of trophy, and don’t do any other stupid shit you are told not to do or do anything else to be cute.

This is not a game the DPRK DOES NOT FUCK AROUND!!!!! If they decide to arrest you and put you on trial, you have ZERO protection or recourse, no matter what the charges are.
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  Major ShadeEd Spock
  3/16/16 11:10am
  I think the part about the kid being drunk is more relevant that the part about stealing the sign. Isn’t alcohol illegal in North Korea? I think it is, or maybe it’s only available on the black market. So the fact that he was drunk (and stupid) (and American) really riled up the NK more than anything else.
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  Ed SpockMajor Shade
  3/16/16 11:17am
  I don’t think it’s illegal. IIRC on some of the documentaries people have shot while traveling around DPRK I’ve seen, there have been scenes of the tourists having some beers with the minders.
  
  Regardless, when you’re in a place where the smallest little infraction can get you into deep shit, it’s not a good idea to get hammered to the point where your judgement goes out the window.
  
  Some people want to treat going to NK like it’s some kind of fucking game of “What sneaky thing can we get away with while we’re there” and don’t understand the reality of the place. It looks like this kid was one of those people and he paid the price.
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Sid and FinancyJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:45am
Coincidentally, the first American college student to do any hard labor since 1979.
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  FuckingIdiotTheSequelSid and Financy
  3/16/16 10:47am
  So all those starving student movers are a lie?
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  William DiazSid and Financy
  3/16/16 11:06am
  You realize that a great many college students now are veterans, still serving or in the Guard/Reserve, right? While I agree with you that many college students are as useful as ‘pre-used’ toilet paper, there is at least one cohort that is made of sterner stuff.
  
  Have a great day!
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Sharon O.Jordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:50am
WHY do people keep going to this country? There’s no U.S. embassy there. They can make up a lie, force you to publicly confess to it, then sentence you to literally anything, could be death. No one can help you. Stop going to North Korea.
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  j4x_Sharon O.
  3/16/16 11:01am
  Rich, white college males are incapable of understanding that they are NOT “Masters of the Universe”.
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  kcd06j4x_
  3/16/16 11:14am
  racist much, or just playing the sterotype card?
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jokepitchJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:59am
“attempting to steal a sign from a staff-only area at the Yanggakdo Hotel with the goal of “harming the work ethic and the motivation of the North Korean people.””

I’m dying to know what the sign says. It seems like it must have been really important if the work ethic and motivation of the entire country could be derailed by its removal.
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  Muscatojokepitch
  3/16/16 11:25am
  I’m dying to know what the sign says.
  
  The long-rumored, mysterious fifth floor of the Yanggakdo Hotel has now been pretty thoroughly documented (on YouTube). Travelers always noted that there was no way to get to 5 on the guest elevators, and eventually some brave idiot (who got out safely, unlike this one) poked around until he found the right staircase. It’s a supremely spooky place, apparently used for staff indoctrination, to remind them how much they have to hate the guests they otherwise fawn over - it’s low-ceilinged, dim, and lined with hand-painted posters showing Western atrocities and the never-ending victimization/heroism of the (North) Korean people.
  
  The sign probably just exhorted the People to Follow the Wisdom of the Great Marshal and Defeat the Paper Tiger or some such rot.
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  SkillbillyMuscato
  3/16/16 11:32am
  Wait, what!?
  
  Link?
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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:36am
North Korea up to its usual hostage-for-foreign-aid shtick, again.

Release the Rodman!
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  sour duckGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  3/16/16 10:41am
  Rodman and Bill Clinton tag team!
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  Sonic Reducer 151sour duck
  3/16/16 10:48am
  Wait, is MTV bringing back Celebrity Death Match?
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SpringSprungJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:37am
He went there on a holiday trip. Someone should have booked with Trivago.
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  SlappyMcFartsackSpringSprung
  3/16/16 10:40am
  Thanks, Captain Obvious.
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  SpringSprungSlappyMcFartsack
  3/16/16 10:41am
  No, that’s hotels.com
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ItsTrueItsDamnTrueJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:42am
Poor kid will never know what the 500th day of Kristin will be
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  Negasonic Oldage WarheadItsTrueItsDamnTrue
  3/16/16 10:55am
  15 years of hard labor or reading 500 days of Kristin? No brainer....I'll take the 15 years.
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  j4x_ItsTrueItsDamnTrue
  3/16/16 11:01am
  The 500th day I don’t read that article and continue to attemp and find out who Kristin is by skimming the headline of the article?
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BurningSpearJordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:48am

Sorry, but if you go to N. Korea you’re an idiot. Think about what an idiot you were while you’re serving your 15 year sentence.

Also, I hate him for making me even need to waste my time thinking about his dumb ass self.

Now we’re all worse off because he gave that overgrown, overstuffed toddler of a leader of theirs a bargaining chip.
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  TheSillyManBurningSpear
  3/16/16 11:02am
  Meh some people go for humanitiarian reasons.. but in general if you visit North Korea for tourism, you are pretty dumb. You are an absolute idiot and deserve what you get once you try to commit a crime (by any countries laws) in North Korea.
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  MrTastyCakesTheSillyMan
  3/16/16 11:05am
  some people go for humanitiarian reasons
  
  “Spreading the gospel of Jesus” does not qualify as a Humanitarian mission.
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Sonic Reducer 151Jordan Sargent
3/16/16 10:44am
White privilege does not travel well.
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  FuckingIdiotTheSequelSonic Reducer 151
  3/16/16 10:48am
  I beg to differ. It’s first class all the way.
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  Sonic Reducer 151FuckingIdiotTheSequel
  3/16/16 10:50am
  Touché
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