After the latest arrest of a US student...

I think the problem here is that you started this particular line of conversation by insinuating that someone shouldn't be surprised if they were arrested simply because they traveled to the DPRK. Someone called you out on that, asking "why not be surprised when something rare happens?" referring to how rare it is for foreign tourist to be detained in the country, and you returned with "It's fairly obvious that North Korea is not above board when it comes to tourism," which seems to indicate you are still maintaining that there is great danger of arrest to those who travel there, regardless of whether they do something to bring such a punishment on themselves. So I asked for clarification and reiterated that thousands of people DO travel there without incident, since I assumed we were still talking about the subject at hand -- the likelihood of reasonless arrest.

But it seems that wasn't the case. You appear to have just made a irrelevant sweeping statement about the nature of the DPRK as you personally see it based on things you've read online. Nothing that you said in your response to me has anything to do with the likelihood of being arrested as a legitimate foreign visitor. Instead you just say things like, "They don't like the US."

Fake supermarkets, fake computers, etc. All of these things are memes that may have been based on truth at some point in their past, but are no more a representation of the "reality" of the DPRK than you seem to think an actual visit on the ground in the country is. Seriously, do you think the shit you've read online makes you any more knowledgeable about the reality of life in the DPRK than someone who has read those things AND seen the country with their own eyes? Get over yourself.

The fact is that people safely travel to and from the DPRK all the time with no fear of being randomly arrested. I am one of them. It is a rare event for a foreign tourist to be arrrested, and when they are, it's almost always because they knowingly did something they were not supposed to do.

Your distrust of the DPRK in general doesn't have any bearing on that.

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