Is there any information what is happening in North Korea regarding COVID-19?

@nielsk Last I heard they had said they haven't had a bit of it. Are you considering taking a fun vacation trip there?

@Ron no, just a personal interest. While in university I studied quite a bit about it thus I still have an interest but lately I am bad at following the news outside of what I get through podcasts and a local news-website.

@nielsk Somewhere and sorry, I don't remember where, I read a very extensive article about someone's trips there. Yes, several over a period of years! It was full of a lot photos, which were taken freely. The article was like a travelog. There were some pictures that wouldn't appear in most travelogs, but I found the article very interesting. It was not scary, which is what I was expecting.

@Ron relations with Japan because I did a masters degree in Japanese Science with an emphasis on politics and economics of Japan. Thus North Korea was always in there somewhere.

@nielsk When I was still getting a formal education, following whatever interested one and whatever was relevant to other things of interest was the accepted procedure for what one learned about. I understand this approach is no longer favored in some areas, so I'm pleased that you still practiced it. I had two very good friends who grew up in East Germany before the Wall came down. I learned a lot from them about their world, that was very different from the one I grew up in!

@Ron yes, it was a good thing but hard to do nowadays with the rules in place here. But it also meant that I studied really long. Doesn’t matter that much now but I always have a feeling that I need to justify why I needed that long to graduate.