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i don't know. do visiting NYC before and during the Lehman and Bear Sterns fiascos and Detroit considered war zones?

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel Will they not allow British entry? Or is the US? They have allowed a good few US citizens in.

Americans have been let in on very rare occasions. ca. 1000 in the last 50 years! The DPRK generally loathes Americans...

The people I know who have gone to North Korea are booked on what is essentially a package tour through a Chinese based company Koryo Tours. You get the visa through them and go to Beijing where from where you fly on the national airline into Pyongyang.
http://www.koryogroup.com/

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Originally posted by fbgdavidson Americans have been let in on very rare occasions. ca. 1000 in the last 50 years! The DPRK generally loathes Americans... The people I know who have gone to North Korea are booked on what is essentially a package tour through a Chinese based company Koryo Tours. You get the visa through them and go to Beijing where from where you fly on the national airline into Pyongyang. http://www.koryogroup.com/

I guess it is a good thing I can get a Russian passport through my sister. Or so I hope.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel I guess it is a good thing I can get a Russian passport through my sister. Or so I hope.

Better do that sooner rather than later. From what I understand, there are often age limits on how long you're able to apply for a 'secondary' passport based on family/heritage.

yup.

i have a mussolini passport as well, and you need to do it after 25 (to avoid military service) and before 30.

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Originally posted by Schadenfreude yup. i have a mussolini passport as well, and you need to do it after 25 (to avoid military service) and before 30.

Clever move with the national service

Yeah, I think the age limit is 30 for a lot of countries.

Sadly, I never had the option to get dual passports. The last 3 generations in my family were all born in Australia.

i was lucky, because now if you were born after a certain year if you accept another country's passport you have to give up canadian citizenship.

old = win.

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Originally posted by Schadenfreude i was lucky, because now if you were born after a certain year if you accept another country's passport you have to give up canadian citizenship. old = win.

Is that for every country's passports, or just most?

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Originally posted by Schadenfreude yup. i have a mussolini passport as well, and you need to do it after 25 (to avoid military service) and before 30.

I guess it is a good thing I am right in that time! w00t

i would not know.

they did this because when there were problems in lebanon the canadian gov had to extract a ton of people from the area that had canadian passports but never really lived in canada.

it was quite expensive.

dual citizenship has its privileges for sure. For instance, an italian passport gives you a right to work in all EU countries. My sister just got a job as a nanny in london. Without the passport it would have been quite impossible.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Haha, I forgot they call them 'robots' When we first got there, we were like "Wtf, what do you mean 'don't stop at the robot??'"

first time I went to SA I talked to a guy on the plan who told me how he got hit by a backie that ran a red robot. sounded like something from lost in space to me.
the townships in joburg are certainly more an iussue that drivin around CT.
been in thailand during coups, in indonesia during the riots when suharto got deposed. unless you were near the centre of things you'd not know the differencefrom any other day. Only thing we got told is don't make major purchases in foreign currency as we might be seen to be taking advantage of their currency crumbling.

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Originally posted by tubby first time I went to SA I talked to a guy on the plan who told me how he got hit by a backie that ran a red robot. sounded like something from lost in space to me.

'Bucky' I think it is? It's like a ute, right?

interesting about koryo tours.

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Major Commemoration Days February 20th - Machine Workers' Day March 5th - Farmers' Day March 8th - International Women's Day March 22nd - Fishermen's Day April 5th - Public Health Day April 6th - Reforestation Day April 8th - Communications Day April 25th - Korean People's Army Day May 11th - Railway Day May 15th - Geological Survey Day May 21st - Builders' Day June 1st - International Children's Day June 6th - Day of the Foundation of Korean Children's Union June 7th - Local Industry Day July 1st - Miners' Day July 7th - Coal-Miners' Day August 10th - Forestry Workers' Day August 20th - Air Force Day August 28th - Navy Day and Youth Day September 5th - City Administration Day September 15th - Commerce Day October 9th - Metal Workers' Day October 14th - Broadcasting Workers' Day October 15th - Textile Industry Day November 1st - Press Day November 16th - Land and Marine Transport Day December 6th - Chemical Industry Day

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Originally posted by iclone interesting about koryo tours.

Who wouldn't get excited about Geological Survey Day or Chemical Industry Day!

These have some good North Korea trip reports:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip...-pyongyang.html
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=200578
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=200578
Sadly some of the picture links are broken but they make great reading!

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