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I was one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in 5 years. I was surprised we were allowed to see signs of poverty.
Once inside North Korea, a few things immediately stood out ... and as we traveled from place to place, we saw the poverty. People in the rural areas were clearly very poor, and we weren't ...
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German influencer surprised by North Korea's openness about poverty
said he was surprised that North Koreans did not go out of their way to conceal their poverty. Luca Pferdmenges, a 23-year-old German traveler who crossed the North Korea-China border by land for ...
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South Koreans are starkly divided over North Korea’s nuclear threat
poverty and, in recent decades, head-spinning though unevenly distributed economic growth. Differing views on North Korea are now sharper than ever, influenced — or not — by Pyongyang’s ...
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I was one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in 5 years. I was surprised we were allowed to see signs of poverty.
Going there, there were lots of rules to follow and moments that felt quite staged, but what surprised me most was that they didn't hide the country's visible poverty. Entering North Korea There ...