The American couple who met on vacation in North Korea – CNN July 14, 2021

I saw this on CNN – The American couple who met on vacation in North Korea: http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/american-couple-who-met-vacation-north-korea/index.html. Longer article.

Francesca Street 14th July 2021

(CNN) — Ryan Carlson was in the middle of a backpacking trip in New Zealand when he got the email: North Korea was opening its borders to American tourists.

It was September 2005. Carlson, 25, worked in finance as an independent futures trader in Chicago, a job that afforded him a lot of flexibility for travel.

North Korea had been on Carlson’s to-visit list for a while, but the notoriously secretive, isolated nation hadn’t allowed US tourists to enter since 2002.

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