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Old 02-12-10, 07:07 PM   #9
Castout
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At the airport, the North Korean consulate took our passports and all of our money, then brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our tour group, and suddenly all the other diners left and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, “Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. We’re jet-lagged. Can we just go to bed?” but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, “Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you don’t act excited then you’re not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls.

Typical of totalitarian state...

The situation in North Korea would deteriorate into war even with this planned talks coming around again. North Korea and its tactics of brinkmanship . . .
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