• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Isn’t Pyongyang already a tourist hotspot?

      They see over 300k tourists a year, despite being one of the hardest countries in the world to visit. By comparison, San Diego sees around 600k visitors annually. And I can get there with a $200 plane ticket.

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    17 days ago

    One of the larger advantages for NK to allow foreign tourists is to get foreign currency.

    Usually this has been in dollars or Euros, or even RMB, all of which are useful, but why would they want rubels?

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    17 days ago

    Imagine you’re so isolated internationally your people can only have a holiday in North-Korea 💀