jeudi 12 février 2015

North Korea launches a website dedicated to tourism

North Korea has launched a website exclusively designed to allow tourists to calmly prepare a unique stay in the most closed countries.
For the fans. North Korea has decided to open if not, at least be interested in foreign avid original tourist experience. According to South Korean news agency Youhap the country, led an iron fist by Kim Jong-un, now has a new information site for tourists who wish to venture in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) DPRKtoday.com. The entry into the country is only possible at only way to tour and approved by the government.

Although the site is written only in Korean, a quick glance allows the user to browse articles with pictures and video clips touting the customs and greatest cultural assets of the country: athletic prowess, huge achitecture , museums, water parks or arcades are highlighted in a false cheerfulness atmosphere. The shots in bright, cheerful colors that honor surreal landscapes to Disneyland-like instantly recall that traveling by totalitarian regime.

Hosted in China like the official propaganda agency Uriminzokkiri countries, the website also seems to be itself an intrinsic propaganda tool in the service of power. For information alongside the "tourist", are also found content praising the policy of Kim Jong-un, says The Guardian, which also points out that the site is careful to report a recent demonstration in Pyongyang on a reporting UN denouncing the situation of human rights in the country. Regimented, tens of thousands of Korean Norths had indeed gathered in November in Pyongyang to protest against the UN resolution condemning violations of human rights in the country. North Korean media claim that the website was created to "satisfy the growing interest and expectation" on the nation.

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