'Like a trip to the zoo': Inside Dandong, the Chinese tourist town window into North Korea
8 years, 6 months ago

'Like a trip to the zoo': Inside Dandong, the Chinese tourist town window into North Korea

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As North Korea is set to face its toughest United Nations sanctions in response to its biggest and fifth nuclear test, China correspondent Matthew Carney ventures into the Chinese border city of Dandong to see how the city is faring under the sanctions. Dandong 'felt like a patriotic Disneyland' The town had a carnival atmosphere, where you could dress in traditional Korean outfits and buy cheap North Korean goods and propaganda. Mr Han told me China had scarified much for North Korea, so they should not let North Korea, China's little brother as he said, go. Most people I spoke to on the cruise said seeing North Korea made them feel better about themselves and the progress China had made over last three decades. But the older tourists on the cruise were quite sentimental and said North Korea reminded them of a simpler time, when China's ideology was pure and not polluted with consumerism.

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