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Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by herdrick on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:04PM (#7072150)
Actually, this is something else. Those foreigner-only, hard-currency-only ones are sad enough, but this is much worse. There is no store. It's just playacting.
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Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by kteofanidis on Friday January 17, 2014 @08:44AM (#7075677)
It wasn't even that. Locals were also allowed to buy as long as they had foreign currency. While it was hard to get it was by no means impossible (black market at 3-4 times the official rate). Of course if you bought anything expensive or too often, questions would be asked.
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Re:Secret State of North Korea [video] by dzink on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:22PM (#7074087)
It's a museum of the present that could have been.
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