#12 - How I Became a Tour Guide for North Korea
Radical Empathy
Jubilee Media
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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John speaks with Zoe, an English travel enthusiast who managed to become an official tour guide inside North Korea. She explains how visiting North Korea completely shattered her preconceptions about the country and the people she encountered there.
https://www.tiktok.com/@zoediscoversnk
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| 0:31.2 | it's often best like not to ask why you're like why is this happening why is that happening |
| 0:35.8 | it's all very puzzling. I'll often say that |
| 0:38.0 | when you visit North Korea as a tourist, you come out with more questions than you do answers. |
| 0:47.7 | Who are you? |
| 0:48.8 | Oh, I am the great and powerful wizard of Oz. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm John. |
| 1:02.5 | Welcome back to radical empathy. |
| 1:07.9 | So about a year ago, I was flipping through TikTok and I came across this account that I found really puzzling. |
| 1:19.3 | The videos that were posted to the account appeared to be filmed inside of North Korea. |
| 1:25.2 | But what I found so fascinating about this account was that it was run by a young white woman. |
| 1:31.3 | I interviewed a North Korean soldier. |
| 1:33.3 | What's your name again? You don't, you don't know. |
| 1:36.3 | What's your name? |
| 1:40.3 | This monument was built on Liberation Day on August 15th, |
| 1:47.0 | celebrating the one-year anniversary of the June 15th Declaration. |
| 1:52.0 | So the signing of the Declaration... |
| 1:54.0 | And she seemed very comfortable. |
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