“A delight.”
Their propaganda isn’t remotely strong enough to make NK appealing
Isn’t Pyongyang already a tourist hotspot?
They see over 300k tourists a year, despite being one of the hardest countries in the world to visit. By comparison, San Diego sees around 600k visitors annually. And I can get there with a $200 plane ticket.
You might be off by a few orders of magnitude there
I think you got that wrong. 300k visitors a year is very, very few. For comparison: Our local open-air museum for old farm houses has about 45k visitors a year. And it’s only open in summer.
San Diego says they have about 30 million visitors a year. (https://www.sandiego.org/about/industry-research)
300k tourists is what Hamburg, Germany, does per week in the season (measured by over night stays). And that’s one city and not a country.
And while Hamburg is a nice city, it’s also the place where it rains sideways
Yes, they’re doing quite well. Luxury resorts for affordable costs, film industry, water parks.
Lmfao
One of the larger advantages for NK to allow foreign tourists is to get foreign currency.
Usually this has been in dollars or Euros, or even RMB, all of which are useful, but why would they want rubels?
Nutritional value?
Since when?
China likely accepts payment in rubles.
given the current political climate I’m surprised they allow USD anymore. I’d expecting them to be sucking up more to China and requiring RMB.
They like USD so much they make their own! Big damn US patriots they are.
Eh, there are plenty of trade partners that hate the US that will happily trade in USD.
yes, but politically these days (since March 2026) it seems much smarter to reject the US completely, it does not feel at all as stable as China now. I mean China’s power is what has stopped the cost oil sky-rocketing into the stratosphere this year. China is clearly in control and the US is a dumpster fire now bent on destroying the globalisation it once created.
That’s nice and all, but the USD is still the global reserve currency. Until that changes, it’s what you want if you’re going to be doing business with other states or just foreign interests.
China has been quietly selling off its USD for a decade. The geopolitical alliances have been shifting for a while, but Hormuz just pushed it into high gear.
Personally I now avoid doing business with US companies where possible and am looking into Bank of China for banking - getting away from anything that sends money to the US where I can. I doubt I’m the only one.
China has not been “selling off” USD. They have been churning bonds and cash holdings. It’s normal. There has yet to be any significant movement away from the USD as the global reserve currency. There has been some small movement away from the petrodollar, but it does not appear to have been sustained activity.
hmm, this seems somewhat to tell a different story?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves_of_China
The true breakdown of total reserves is not public, but it does seem to me that the actions of China are bolstering stability far more than the US at this stage, and I expect to see further decline in USD holdings globally as the US implodes its former soft power supremacy.
Imagine you’re so isolated internationally your people can only have a holiday in North-Korea 💀
Trips to other countries are getting to expensive, i imagine…?
Not at all! They can visit Ukraine for free!
How’s the fishing?
