{"id":15618,"date":"2013-06-12T02:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:06:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-12T02:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:06:55","slug":"Videos-Of-Visiting-North-Korea-a-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15618","title":{"rendered":"Videos Of Visiting North Korea a second time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted here in a long time, in particular since posting all my videos from visiting North Korea my second time. This visit was incredible — including interacting with North Korean soldiers, passing through slum-like neighborhoods normally off-limits to foreigners, visiting factories also normally off-limits…<\/p>\n

But also seeing some of the people we saw on the first trip and making connections — regular person-to-person connections — seeing many children, being invited to participate in weddings, and also just enjoying ourselves seeing a different country and culture.<\/p>\n

If you know of ways to improve the situation in North Korea, I hope you do. In the meantime, I believe person-to-person human interactions where North Korean people see non-North-Koreans and vice versa improves the situation more than doing so supports the status quo. Most places that become overrun with tourists become like other places in the world.<\/p>\n

I posted many posts with videos of this trip and created one set of links to them all. Here it is.<\/p>\n

Please feel free to contact me. I’d love to hear your thoughts and answer questions about visiting North Korea.<\/p>\n

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Any trip to North Korea will be eye-opening and amazing, even before Dennis Rodman visited. I visited last April for the celebration of the anniversary of Kim Il Sung\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

I believe visiting creates more understanding and communication than potential problems. As I\u2019ve explained before here and in my book<\/a>, I consider such interactions among the best ways to increase communication and understanding with North Koreans, which I consider the best ways to bring about more peaceful relations. I believe all related governments have motivations to maintain adversarial relations, so I don\u2019t have much faith in them to create peace.<\/p>\n

As I say in one of the videos in this series, I believe regular people like you and I will have to lead our would-be political leaders in this issue.<\/p>\n

I wrote up my amazing videos of discovery, communication, education, and regular people like you and me that grew up in North Korea. Here they are, starting with some of the most amazing ones.<\/p>\n

Links to the videos<\/h1>\n