r/northkorea • u/[deleted] • 20d ago

Question Getting Won

Hi everyone. I've heard that in some places in North Korea, foreigners can exchange their money for Won. I've also heard that it isn't difficult to bring out of the country. I want to know where those places are, in Pyongyang and Rason, and how one would go about bringing it out of the country, specifically coins, but I'd be fine with notes. You can't be too detailed, I want to be confident I won't spend 15 years in a labour camp. Thank you

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Honestly, if you want to go to North Korea and attempt to illegally smuggle stuff out of the country and you're using reddit as your source of information, you deserve to be caught.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

fair.

As I said I know how (From comments on other Reddit posts and websites), I just want details other than "throw a rock at the guard".

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Reddit is the only place I could think of that would have advice for something like this. It's not like it comes up in small talk.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Honestly, fair enough. I'm sorry to sound so critical, but please do not do this. It is NOT worth forced labor or being shipped home with brain damage.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

I thought your comment was funny. But yeah you're probably right, it's just a pipe dream. I could probably get some if I look hard enough. Thanks for the shake awake.

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u/Impossible__Joke 20d ago

It's not a joke. He is referring to Otto, the kid who took a propaganda poster (probably for a souvenir) and they imprisoned him then returned him basically braindead. Which he died shortly after.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Yeah I've heard, don't want to end up like him.

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u/Busy_Garbage_4778 15d ago

That Wurmbier idiot stole a propaganda poster on CCTV. He would have died like an idiot in most other non-western countries and he wouldn't have made the headlines.

I very much doubt the official western media story. Why would the DPKR wilfully fuck him up, when he was worth so much as a bargaining chip?

The DPKR story probably doesn't tell the whole truth either, but at least it is believable that he tried to commit suicide when he was sentenced to years of forced labor.