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Entering a building is not equivalent to entering a counrtry

Posted by Mike Kendall on May 15, 2011 at 10:49am

So says the articele in this months newsletter.

Does this mean the members who walk around the table from South to North Korea in the Armistice Building have to now remove North Korea from their list ? Always thought it was a bit bogus anyway. Also how about when you transit a country by air and only go to the airport transit area ?

 

 

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  • David Botts July 15, 2011 at 3:23pm
    So how about hitting Moldova sailing across its minute Danube River border? I assume crossing a country's water or land counts.  But how about transiting under a country's border waters by submarine or diving through a river border?
  • Lee Abbamonte June 10, 2011 at 6:01am
    I agree, anyone who counts an embassy visit as visiting a country is missing the point of traveling and is nuts...why even bother?  Just go to DC and pop in and out of embassy row...you'll be at 180 or so pretty quick!
  • Jo Ann Schwartz June 9, 2011 at 7:45am
    I think we're all on the same page here!  I hadn't even thought of the embassy route - I'm heading in to SF now and I should be able to get a few more countries by this PM.  Just kidding!!  ;-)
  • Kevin Thomas Hughes June 5, 2011 at 10:01am
    No. As I said, the TCC takes no position on this; let your conscience be your guide. But anybody who counts setting foot in an embassy as having visited a country is nuts. And after all, the idea is to visit the world, not  the embassies in a particular capital. Right? I walked around the peace table at Panmunjon, too, but it wasn't enough. When the tours from Beijing started allowing Americans, I went back -- twice.
  • Jo Ann Schwartz June 5, 2011 at 9:20am

    Isn't the newsletter more referring to the situation of entering an embassy's grounds and if that counts?  The example given was trying to get credit for visiting Malta while still in Rome.  Before it was possible to visit DPRK I claimed credit via the DMZ route, but of course went back to really visit when it was possible to do so and boy was it worth it!  I took my daughter along and she claims credit for visiting South Korea by crossing over from the North in that same little DMZ building, probably one of the few Americans to have "visited" South Korea in this way.


  • Mike Kendall May 28, 2011 at 2:12am
    Can't disagree with anything you said there. Mike
  • Kevin Thomas Hughes May 28, 2011 at 1:48am
    Let your conscience be your guide. The TCC takes no position on this, but my personal view is, and always has been, that it is the experience is the most important thing -- MUCH more important and valuable than numbers -- so sticking a toe over a boarder doesn't count for much, as far as I am concerned. But everybody forms his or her own paradigms.
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