(08-14-2023, 09:18 AM)727Sky Wrote: Some of you may know this but let us say your grand dad stole an apple; He is caught and he and everyone for 3 generations will go to prison. I checked this video out because I had read a news article about a family who had been found to have a Bible in their home. All got locked up to include there 2 year old child.
I've made three trip across borders into full-on surrealism. Thank God they were all of relatively short duration.
Crossing into North Korea was the absolute, most intimidating, moment of my life. The North Koreans had cut hard-wire comms lines at Pan Mun Jom. They refused to service the lines and forced us to send a commo-guy across the DMZ. He did something they didn't cotton to and beat him severely. Then they wanted someone else to come across and escort him back.
I got tapped. When I went across, I refused to take him back until he completed his repairs. Even today, the pucker-factor re-emerges. Gotta be akin to suffering PTSD.
Haven't been back to visit Poland or Czechoslovakia since the wall fell. My recollections of those places was colorless ... a gray/brownish/Hellish landscape full of demoralized people. Would tell you that only a fucking fool would traipse into North Korea even to this day. I'd add this: If I had the Nuclear Launch Codes, not matter what target package was selected ... North Korea, Pakistan and Iran ... would be part of it.