@tryptameanie 970653 wrote:
Weirdly I just saw something about North Korea becoming a paradise for surfers or something equally mental but I assumed it was a hoax or fake and crap anyway.
or just mistranslated – media in the Anglosphere struggles with news from Germany let alone in Korean. TBH North Korea is not as locked down as people think; they let this Chinese chap from Singapore travel there with all sorts of cameras and upload photographs online with just a “gentlemans agreement” that they wouldn’t be used directly for political purposes. He is doing this from North Korea so there must be some Internet somewhere in the country with a fair bit of upstream bandwidth (the Chinese in SG/MY are like the Japanese when it comes to cameras and photography).
That said, SG just had one of the most free and fair elections of SE Asia; and it was still a landslide victory for the same political party they have had since independence and they elected the son of the dude who was previously in charge.
From the descriptions given of the aerodrome staff using the computers and the keyboards being mysteriously removed (perhaps only to be swapped for those which operate in multiple languages?; or maybe the monitors are touchscreen?) it could simply be a test to ensure these computers definitely cannot upset anything to do with the air traffic control before random people are let loose on them as a lot of this is now IP-based worldwide.
For all the supposed faults of North Koreas domestic airline, which at least one of the Kims would have nothing to do with; prefering to go via train even as far as the Soviet countries (he has his own train for this) they have not actually crashed any aircraft recently which is a better safety record than nearby much more developed Asian countries and even Northern Europe. They are not allowed in EU airspace but nor are Phillipines aircraft…
