Hi
Pretty rare to see North Korean currency outside of North Korea, here is some. I'll post my bills soon.
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Hi
Pretty rare to see North Korean currency outside of North Korea, here is some. I'll post my bills soon.
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I have some North Korean currency somewhere, I don't have any notes but I have used them, I brought some coins back with me after I visited a few years ago.
I considered putting them on eBay but they're pretty unique things to own.
Nice pics.
North Korean Currency
You got it wrong.
THIS is NK currency:
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Nice, thanks for posting! Never seen these "in the wild"...
So, how was the food like in North Korea? I'm sure as a tourist you had no trouble getting food (Unlike the rest of the population), but I'm equally sure it probably wasn't spectacular. Some people have described the food on their own visits as simply being "matter". Yes, so bad that they could only say it was "matter" of some kind. I guess most of the food is veg since meat is probably harder to get.
Horrible news! Apparently nobody knows who will succeed Kim Yong'Il???
I'm frightened...
My "personal visit" was an organised tour from South Korea, meals were provided by the tour company so that's not really something I would no much about.
On one hand I can say I've been to NK but at the same time I haven't. The tour basically takes you to an artificial village designed to sell NK to the outside world as somewhere stable and magnificent.
I only managed to get a few coins by trading with a North Korean. We gave her a canadian ten dollar note for a few she had. If I'd been caught doing that I'd still be there surviving on "matter" and my own urine, or dead.
Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.
I've heard and read a whole lot of stories about North Korea. I think that the movie "Equilibrium" gave me a sense of everything I've seen but summed up and fit into western society. I hear the tour guides are on constant alert for any activity made with foreign nationals making any type of communication with citizens of the DPRK, Twimfy got some mad balls!
Well yeah it was probably stupid thing to do, they got their own back though, they confiscated my camera memory cards and wiped them clean before I left. My ex girlfriend took pretty much the same pics as me and they left hers intact.
I hear Choco Pies are becoming currency in the underground
One of the best, most insightful films ever made about North Korea was a BBC documentary that tells the story of American Army deserters who crossed over into the DPRK. It's called Crossing the Line.
I think it's one of the few films ever made about the subject of that actually talks about the good as well as the bad of living in NK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kBmAnjlJ3A
Here's the playlist for the actual film.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...4D9555CEDC33EE
Last edited by MetalSlime; 09-22-2010 at 07:34 PM.
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