Jack Laurence
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
you know, your pictures or whatever.
I mean, I think, you know, I think I even had that happen in the US once.
So we go through, and I didn't realize this at the time, but we were told as soon as we got to the hotel, one of the gentlemen on the trip, who's an Argentinian gentleman, who becomes very interesting in this case later on, and I've never revealed this, this is an exclusive view.
He decided to bring in, let's just say a, how would you describe this?
A home video of a pornographic nature.
which he had deliberately tried to hide on his laptop as some sort of game he was playing with the North Korean authorities.
Definitely not the start to the trip you would want.
A word of warning to anyone who might be considering travelling to North Korea, this is not a place that you want to try and test the authorities.
And this little stunt pulled by Mr Porno meant that the entire group now was placed under suspicion.
So the way it works is exactly like any documentary you've seen.
So you have three guides with you, you have one senior guide, who was actually a really nice bloke, well he was very nice to us anyway,
He was a guy who spoke, it was very interesting, because I speak Spanish, so a lot of the group didn't.
Apart from this, actually, this Argentinian bloke is the only other one who can speak to the guy properly.
So he spoke Spanish with a very, very strong Bolivian accent.
And he told me he'd lived in Bolivia.
He said he spent most of his life running a shop in Bolivia.
So essentially, he said, look, this is the deal.
We're taking all your passports away now, because you're under suspicion because of Mr. Porno.