The *only* things you REALLY can't bring to North Korea... (2022)

hi everyone and welcome back just two things before we get started number one sorry for the huskiness of my voice might sound a little bit since i've had a cold recently and it doesn't seem to have completely gone yet don't worry it's not covered second thing is is thank you very much to my patrons as always um thank you to clark james and charles if you want to support my channel and do head over to patreon or please just remember to like and subscribe it does mean a lot to me especially during these times when the north korean border is still closed and i can't go back for tours and for making any more like cool videos in the country they will be coming up so make sure that you do subscribe but for the moment i'm going to continue making these videos these q a's and also these vlogs from past footage that i have filmed in north korea over the past few years so without further ado that brings us to this video this week which is all about things that you can't take to north korea there's a lot of misleading information out there there's a lot of just completely untrue things about what you can bring into north korea and what you're coming into north korea so that's pretty much why i want to make this video um number one just to let you know so if you ever decide to come to at all come on a tour to north korea you know what you can't bring and number two to kind of settle the score and be like no okay this is what you can't bring um if i have missed out anything then or if you think i've missed out anything or if you've heard of something that you think that you can't take to north korea that isn't in this video do put it in the comments below um sorry and um and i can let you know if it's something that i've missed out or if it's something that um actually it's okay to take to north korea what i will say is that traveling to north korea it's better to be safe than sorry so if you have a question if you are not sure about what you can take into north korea about you what you can't take into north korea then do ask no question is too stupid and it is always better to be on the safe side because they do have some pretty strict rules so the first thing and the most important thing um to not bring into north korea the absolute number one thing if the customs officers only ask you about one thing it will be this thing that thing is bibles okay and this extends also to any religious material it is not permitted to bring bibles into north korea any religious material into north korea and it is also not permitted whilst you're there to um propagate religion number two anything really in the korean language so that's any publication any media something like that from south korea um anything um yeah including any songs any movies any books anything like that in the korean language this kind of relates to number three which is any media about the dprk so that's any books any films any thing any guidebooks on the on on the dprk on north korea is also not permitted to be brought into the country unless it's been published in north korea so north korea have recently started doing um you know kind of quite fancy and modern uh guidebooks um kind of like lonely planet style guide books to north korea of course you can take them in and out of north korea um but if it hasn't been produced in north korea then please do not take any materials about north korea into north korea this leads me on to number four which is pretty much the same thing but just really make sure that you're not bringing anything into north korea that could be deemed as offensive material so that's anything about the dprk um any movies i'm sure a few of them come to mind please make sure that you do not bring them into north korea in fact i actually really recommend that you leave your laptops at home um and you log out of your social media before you enter north korea because i'm sure if your family and friends know that you are going to visit north korea they're probably going to send you a few fun memes a few from pictures that you just really don't want the customs officers to be seeing when you are entering north korea and they go on your phone sometimes they go on your phone this is this they are allowed to they're permitted to usually doesn't happen but it could happen and you really don't want them to see anything of the um things that you might see usually on the internet about north korea two more things so the next one is gps devices this one is a little bit problematic um because pretty much everything has gps on it at the moment all electronics so your phones watches things like that all have gps basically the kind of rule of thumb here is to turn your gps off and if the customs officer asks then say that you have no gps devices it's certainly not permitted to bring in any satellite phones or any specific just gps devices and finally the last one something that is banned in north korea and that you should not be bringing in on your tour to north korea pornography i will say no more so that is pretty much it um it's a fairly short list of things that you should not be bringing into north korea and it's by all means not a definitive list and you definitely have to use your common sense a little bit definitely wouldn't recommend um any clothing with any um political statements on it for example or any flags and of course your own country flag is okay unless your country has um trying relations with uh the dprk and so um like i said at the beginning if you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments below um on this video and hopefully there will be a day sometime soon that this will actually come in handy in terms of visiting north korea um let's hope for a day that this pandemic ends soon and also the borders to north korea open once again thanks for tuning in do remember to like and subscribe really means a lot to me um and i will see you next week [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 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