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[–] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Koryo Tours, based in Beijing, China, offers several marathon packages to foreigners, departing from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang.

Packages start from €2,190 ($2,529; £1,894) for 2.5 nights in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, including a marathon place and "highlights" of the capital and tickets were sold out this year, according to the agency's website.

Is this just an ad for a tourist company that got smuggled into a BBC article?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Probably. The news are full of these, some of them better disguised than others.

    They're called advertorials, I think. It's infuriating once you start getting better at noticing them and notice them more and more.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    There's no point in taking part anyway, Dear Leader can run the marathon in 12 minutes.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Dear leader's ways are mysterious.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I have a friend who ran this like a decade ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    My spider sense started tingling yesterday when I saw that the US military is doing "exercises" with South Korea this week. Maybe they suspect what I suspect...

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well our next target according to Dear Leader Trump is Cuba, so maybe. Why not run a war on 3 separate continents at once, multifront wars are always totally winnable.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    The Arc de Triomphe is in North Korea?

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang is one of the largest Triumphal arches in the world, and commemorates Korean resistance against the Japanese, from 1925-1945

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Noooooooww I fucking know why Trump wants a goddamn Arch

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    "He's got one! I want one too! And I want mine to be BIGGER!"

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is an arch the opposite of a phallic symbol?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    All I know is that finding that Wikipedia article led me down a rabbit hole of various monuments that are all a measly bit higher than whatever came before, so whoever made it can say it's the tallest.

    Freud could solve the energy crisis with how much he's rolling in his grave

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