Some of you have asked what tour company I went to North Korea (and Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine...) with. The company name is Global Exchange and they run a series of Reality Tours that take people all over the world.
"The idea that travel can be educational and positively influence international affairs motivated the first Reality Tour in 1988.
Global Exchange's Reality Tours are not designed to provide immediate
solutions or remedies to the world’s most intractable problems, nor are
they simply a kind of voyeurism. Rather, Reality Tours are meant to
educate people about how we, individually and collectively, contribute
to global problems, and, then, to suggest ways in which we can
contribute to positive change locally and internationally.
Reality Tours offer participants an opportunity to journey to
other countries to examine a situation first-hand, to see beyond what
is communicated by the mass media. By joining us on one of these
delegations, participants have the chance to learn about unfamiliar
cultures, meet with people from all walks of life, and establish
meaningful relationships with people from other countries."
