Tuesday, 3 April 2012

interesting facts about north korea

  if you take photos you could and will be arrested and the photos must be deleted so no photos to be taken.

if you bring a ipod to north korea it has to be left at the airport>you cant leave the hotel without a tour guid

if your a smoker you need to bring your own cigarets,

if you try and cross the border the gaurds will shoot you on the spot ,even if you are australian or not from that country.

You can’t turn off the government radio installed in your home, only reduce the volume.

 Idolatry in North Korea is such that it is second-nature for ordinary citizens to “rescue” portraits of Kim Il Sung before all else in the case of a house fire (there are even special bunkers for statues in case of war)

 Many people don’t even know that man has walked on the moon.

 There is no Internet, cell-phones have been banned.

 A main cause for all problems are Americans. Mothers teach their children to sing songs about bad Americans, there are many postage stamps showing the death of “U.S imperialists”

 A six-day work week, and another day of enforced “volunteer” work, ensures that the average citizen has virtually no free time.

 The very first thing you do when you visit North Korea’s capital Pyongyang is visit and give a flower to a big statue of “Dear Leader”.

 About 0.85% of the population are held in prison or detention camps.

 Dogs are banned in Pyongyang to keep it clean.

Avarage wage in 2005 was 6$

Visitors of North Korea are given special guides and can’t go anywhere without them.

 North Koreans are used to often disappearing electricity and have many candles prepared.

North Korea has the fourth-largest military in the world, at an estimated 1.21 million armed personnel

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