Montana missionary gets a peek inside North Korea

Interesting...this guy pretty much says the exact opposite of what the missionary says about North Korea. I wonder who to believe. Maybe it depends on where you go in NK? Might depend on who you are as well.

What It’s Like To Travel To North Korea

'....I never really had an interest in visiting North Korea. Knowing full well about their repressive regime, as well as the fact that travelers must join an organized tour group in order to visit, simply led me to believe that such a trip was not for me. And then, back in June, just a couple of short months ago, I met two travelers who had been on one of those tours and who recommended that I reconsider. They told me that such a trip would not be what I expected and that going there had much more value than I ever imagined, both for the traveler and for the local people....


....Those two travelers I met in June were absolutely correct. It’s not what you expect when you travel to North Korea.

I’ll tell you now that you’ll be quite disappointed if you believe that everyone you’ll meet in the country is a government-appointed actor playing the role of a ‘normal person’ or that you won’t be able to talk to anyone apart from your government-appointed guides or that you won’t be able to take photographs or that all of your belongings will be thoroughly searched when you enter and exit the country or that you’ll have no freedom of movement whatsoever. You’ll also be disappointed if you think that all North Koreans have no idea of what is happening in the outside world.

None of that is the case....'

[link to www.wanderingearl.com]