Would anyone else like to go to North Korea

r00fie1 said:
Where did you start from? Did you travel in from China?
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Beijing. I went in 2010. Unless things have changed you can only fly to Pyongyang from Beijing and Shenyang in China and Vladivostock (all because most countries don't trust N Korea plane safety) and only as part of an organised group tour.

I had the 'pleasure' of flying there in an old Russian built Tupelev Tu-154 but usually it's an airbus. I was lucky(!) to have that experience as the airbus I should have been on was reallocated to Western media ppl as little did I know that my arrival day in Pyongyang coincided with the first ever public appearance of the present leader Kim Jong-un next to his father Kim Jong-il which is why the media had been invited, up til then Kim Jong-il's successor had been unclear and the subject of much speculation. My return journey to Beijing was by train, another not to be missed experience!
 
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rob_fmttm said:
Yes Koryo Tours organised the N Korea team trip to Boro in 2002. Am still on their regular email list. Am sure they would be delighted by Boro fans going out there. Along with New Zealand I would definitely go if the football season allowed it. Nick Bonner is the name of the guy at the tours who organised the team coming here with Dan Gordon from the film company.
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My Koryo hero was Simon Cockerill. Long story but the N Korean authorities kept my phone (these used to be taken off you on arrival but no longer apparently). Simon retrieved it on his next visit and posted it back to me in UK from Beijing. That's service for you - and I wasn't even one of his clients!
 
rob_fmttm said:
Yes Koryo Tours organised the N Korea team trip to Boro in 2002. Am still on their regular email list. Am sure they would be delighted by Boro fans going out there. Along with New Zealand I would definitely go if the football season allowed it. Nick Bonner is the name of the guy at the tours who organised the team coming here with Dan Gordon from the film company.
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Nick Bonner organised Michael Palin's visit and Dan won a BAFTA not many years ago for his Hillsborough documentary. Dan still visits Boro when he can get to the Sheff Wed games.
 
rob_fmttm said:
Yes Koryo Tours organised the N Korea team trip to Boro in 2002. Am still on their regular email list. Am sure they would be delighted by Boro fans going out there. Along with New Zealand I would definitely go if the football season allowed it. Nick Bonner is the name of the guy at the tours who organised the team coming here with Dan Gordon from the film company.
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Rob:
What chance we organise a Boro fans trip to North Korea to commemorate their fixture at Ayresome Park and cement fraternal links with the DPR Korean Football Association?
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I haven't been to NK, and it would be a very long way down my list. I can't actually think of anywhere below NK on the list.

A police state, people living in grinding poverty, a despotic leader goading the west, minimal contact allowed with the rest of the world.

Doesn't sound great.
 
Hold your hand out in friendship to NK and it's liable to be used for something else-- remember we're still the white devil to most asians.
 
Soutra said:
I haven't been to NK, and it would be a very long way down my list. I can't actually think of anywhere below NK on the list.

A police state, people living in grinding poverty, a despotic leader goading the west, minimal contact allowed with the rest of the world.

Doesn't sound great.
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Sounds like Donald Trump(n)
 
Yes, I’d like to go too.
I know someone posted in jest earlier but I did read somewhere where people from Middlesbrough get preferential treatment for access because of 66.
Didn’t our women’s footy team go over there recently?
 
I didn't go into North Korea itself but did travel to Shenyang then took an overnight train and visited Changbai Mountain which divides China and North Korea. I went in winter and it was the deepest snow I have seen in my life, was quite daunted with the wild tiger tracks in the snow and to be told that a tourist had been mauled to death just a few days previous in that very area. The lake and the scenery was just amazing which I would recommend to anyone and gazing over into North Korea seemed quite mystical.
 
1finny said:
Yes, I’d like to go too.
I know someone posted in jest earlier but I did read somewhere where people from Middlesbrough get preferential treatment for access because of 66.
Didn’t our women’s footy team go over there recently?
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I must admit I thought it might break thhe ice with my guides but they just had a glazed look on their faces when I mentioned Middlesbrough/1966. Likewise I wanted a N Korea football shirt but couldn't get them to understand, v frustrating.
 
kuepper said:
I must admit I thought it might break thhe ice with my guides but they just had a glazed look on their faces when I mentioned Middlesbrough/1966. Likewise I wanted a N Korea football shirt but couldn't get them to understand, v frustrating.
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I reckon a trip in the future [next year or 2022?] might be on the cards?
Im going as soon as its practical and safe.
 
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