Dumb question, for no particular reason. Has anyone here done that?

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    Has anyone here done that?

    If any hexbear user did successfully move to the DPRK, we’d never hear from them again. I imagine they’d be deeply distrustful of any American and bypassing internet restrictions to post on an American forum would be a quick way to prison.

    I’m 99,9% sure it’s impossible through legal means. Maybe you can somehow travel there and then beg for some kind of refugee status? Very unlikely to work though lmao.

  • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    You’re not even allowed to travel there on vacation, so I strongly doubt that you’d be able to move there. Can’t compete in the Pyongyang Race anymore either, only one of like 3 country passports that don’t qualify. The USAians who did were all people who ended up there during the Korean War and stayed on that side of the border.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      11 days ago

      You’re not even allowed to travel there on vacation

      can you feel the FREEEEDOM?

      in the 1980s this type of restriction was constantly whined about to demonize the socialist bloc

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        10 days ago

        Yeah he SA’d a young girl I believe and tried to seek refuge in the DPRK. He’d have had better luck going back to america and becoming a priest.

      • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        10 days ago

        Yes. He was in US military custody and somehow managed to run across the DMZ. He made up all kinds of claims but it turned out he was wanted for SA and was being taken to the US for discipline. The DPRK ultimately deported him back to the US.