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Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh

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Why Foreigners Shouldn't Go to Pyongyang

Even as a tourist, you cannot walk around freely in North Korea. You're always accompanied. So that's why they'll let foreigners go to Pyongyang. Because it gives the perception. Like, oh, it's not as bad as people say. It's a Disney word Exactly. How did North Korea get a nuke? They got the technology from Soviet Union in the 60s, 70s. And the Soviets were propping them up before China. The world cared about human rights that much. But even before the nukes, they would not go do anything there.

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