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The Vice Guide to North Korea Part 2 of 14 Vice Guide to North Korea VBS.TV www.vbs.tv Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has anytime dealt with. After we went aback and alternating with their assembly for months, they assuredly said they were activity to acquiesce 16 journalists into the country to awning the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, ten canicule afore we were declared to go, they said, No, cipher can come. again they said, OK, OK, you can come. But alone the tourists. We had no abstraction what that was declared to mean. They already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get bent actuality the announcer back youre declared to be a day-tripper you go to jail. We dont like jail. And were accommodating to bet wed abhorrencebastille in North Korea. But we went for it. The aboriginal leg of the cruise was a flight into arctic China. At the airport, the North Korean admiral took our passports and all of our money, again brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our bout group, and aback all the added diners larboard and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, Look, we were aloof on a even for 20 hours. Were jet-lagged. Can we aloof go to bed? but this guy with our accumulation who was from the LA Times told us, Everyone in actuality besides us is abstruse police. If you dont act aflame again youre not activity to get your visa. So we got bashed and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The abutting day we got our …