Anna Fifield examines the soulless imbeciles who visit North Korea as tourists …

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“A lot of people don’t know they can even come here, and then when they get here they say it’s not what they were expecting,” said Rowan Beard, 27, an Australian who runs Young Pioneers. “They think it’s going to be all doom and gloom and death and sad faces.”

That’s funny. I’m no Madonna expert, but if I ever met her, I’d expect to see cosmetics troweled over layers of cosmetic alterations and a vacuous personality, not running sores, lesions, or visible tattoos that say “Dennis.” But then, Darwin hasn’t been so kind to all of us.

Indeed, for all the new places that tourists have been allowed to go in recent years, many others remain off-limits. Tourists are never going to see labor camps where as many as 120,000 political prisoners toil, or the villages where children don’t get enough food because it has been diverted to the military.

One positive thing we do learn from this article is that Americans are finally starting to wise up and stay away. Also, I’ve enjoyed Anna Fifield’s reporting for the WaPo so far.