When North Korea opened a marathon up to international competitors, one YouTuber realized it was his only chance to get himself — and his camera — inside the totalitarian country.
“I’m not a runner, but they told me you have to be there in a month, and I made all the preparations and made it happen,” Harry Jaggard told The Post. “I’ve been making YouTube videos going to less visited areas of the world for a while now, and North Korea has been on my radar for years.”
The experience, he said, was bizarre: “My tour guide said that you’ll go into North Korea with 100 questions and you’ll leave with 1,000 questions, and it’s so true.”
The 27-year-old Brit had five days in Pyongyang, North Korea, this April and was shocked by how much he was allowed to film for his vlog-style YouTube channel.
“I was not expecting [to be able to vlog] at all. I thought that it would be very minimal, maybe a few clips that I would voice over,” he said. “To have the freedom that I was given was crazy. They were very relaxed.”
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Jaggard and fellow athletes were treated to a