Posted on 06/20/2017 1:04:34 PM PDT by ColdOne
BEIJING — The organizers of a trip to North Korea by an American college student who died after being released from prison in a coma say they will no longer take U.S. citizens to the country.
Young Pioneer Tours said Tuesday on its Facebook page that the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier shows that the risk American tourists face in visiting North Korea "has become too high
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Risk has become too high?? Talk about understatement..........
Idiots at the Young Pioneer Tour should have known it was dangerous for Americans long before this incident.
The risk is been too high since the late 40s. Are these people retarded?
I’ve worked all over the world mostly in third world countries and I have to tell you, there are very few places I would travel to for enjoyment. Some places I wouldn’t go on a dare.
Gotta love reaction before proaction.
Someone please close the barn door now.
Duh! The light finally flickers on and stays on.
I don’t know if Otto’s family encouraged him to go or not.
It would not surprise me. My sympathies for their loss. Nothing hurts like losing a close family member.
20 year olds are not the only ones who take big risks traveling to countries like North Korea.
I have met many 70 year olds who have traveled to places like Iran, Libya, or Somalia.
One of the reasons they traveled to these hotspots is cheap hotel rooms and restaurants.
Did anyone else observe two year old footage of the guy to look as though he was much older than 22? 20 at the time?
Young Pioneers. Sounds like the old USSR version of the Boy Scouts. Probably appropriate for trips to NK.
[The risk is been too high since the late 40s. Are these people retarded?]
No kidding. Did they ever hear of the Korean War?
If they hadn’t figured this about by about 1950......
The trip to North Korea is tightly controlled and all you get is Propaganda and Drunken Minders
Doesn’t travel to North Korea require State Department approvals? One does not just press a button and get a Visa for entry and exit from North Korea and then entryback into the U.S.
Doesn’t travel to North Korea require State Department approvals? One does not just press a button and get a Visa for entry and exit from North Korea and then entryback into the U.S.
If he had been my kid I’d have locked him in the basement before letting him go.
He had planned to study abroad in his third year of college in China and heard about Chinese travel companies offering trips to North Korea. His parents were OK with it.
“Otto’s a young, thrill-seeking, great kid who was going to be in that part of the world for a college experience,” Fred Warmbier explained.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/north-korea-back-otto-warmbiers-strange-sad-trip-48113955
It’s fine to go to a cheap hotel and restaurant when you travel. But, what do they do in Libya or Somalia? Do they have tourist attractions, along with tourism infrastructure?
Yeah BS. They work for North Korea as a fishing expedition. They purposely misled those kids into telling them it was safe and then baiting them by saying “The country your parents don’t want you to go to”. This was all a scam, everything about it. The “theft” of the poster, Warmbier didn’t steal anything. His friends and family said he wasn’t that kind of guy, the video the North Koreans showed is all blurry, we never see his face. He was set up and probably told if he didn’t admit to it he would be executed - which they did anyway.
I thought that NK was the ideal utopian state that all Leftists in the Deep State and mainstream media aspire to become.
WAPO has more about Young Pioneers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-otto-warmbiers-death-tourism-to-north-korea-comes-under-scrutiny/2017/06/20/e0e7fa20-55ab-11e7-9e18-968f6ad1e1d3_story.html?utm_term=.edda7757c907
Young Pioneer Tours was founded in 2008 by Gareth Johnson, a 36-year-old British man who has a large red tattoo on his left arm showing the Communist hammer and sickle that — along with a calligraphy brush — are the emblem of North Korea’s ruling party. The brush is replaced by a machine gun in his tattoo.
“I realized there was nothing in the way of a budget company that catered for the demographic of people who would not usually do ‘group tours,’ so felt I could combine my love of travel with my newfound love for the people and culture of the DPRK!” Johnson says on the company’s website, using the abbreviation for North Korea’s official name.
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