Hi Pretty rare to see North Korean currency outside of North Korea, here is some. I'll post my bills soon.
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.
Jesus I think you found their entire treasury. On a serious note that's pretty cool. Only kind of foreign currency I have is Euros from when I was in France and a coin (I forget the value) from Greece from when a relative visited there.
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.
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.
Honestly that was dumb. If you'd have been caught you would have likely been sent back. She on the other hand would have gotten in massive trouble. Besides, If wanted some NK currency you could have simply asked the tour guide to exchange some.
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.
If that happened to me, I wouldn't care because as long as I got my equipment back I could simply undelete all the files once I got home. I doubt North Korean's are paid enough to care about data scrubbing.
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_list?p=BC4D9555CEDC33EE
Yeah, that was a great documentary! Thanks for sharing, the idea blew my mind and even more so where James Dresnok's children who are North Korean natives!
