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RE: Travel stories #2: North Korea (DPRK) - How to get to North Korea? (#2 NK)

in #travel7 years ago

Yes, you can drink as much booze as you want in North Korea, but you can only buy it at the more touristy places. Beer and the local soju (strong Korean liquor also drunk in South Korea) are pretty good actually. Getting wasted is not advisable though - you may say things they don't like ;) I have definitely mingled with locals - at the local playground/theme park, on the street, in a restaurant - but having an actual conversation remains hard due to language barriers and them being afraid of you (brainwashing)...

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Good call on not getting too messed up. I do tend to be too honest for my own good. It would be a shame to lose consciousness at the bar and wake up handcuffed in an interrogation room :P
Thanks for the view into N. Korean society. Whatever can be said about it, it does sound spectacular in parts.