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AndriyKunitsyn • yesterday at 11:53 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Tourism is open only for Russians. It's been closed for the world since COVID.

My friends were there in 2017, and all photos and videos were looked at by a border officer before leaving back then. The border officer could ask you to delete a photo for any reason, including not putting a Kim in the center of the shot.

With NK's population not having freedom of movement, and checkpoints between cities, it's safe to say getting a real picture of how North Koreans really live is hard.