A Few Thoughts on North Korea’s Travel Pass System

Open Radio has a good primer on the system North Korea uses to keep people in their home provinces. The effect, intended I suppose, is to make North Korean society like an ice cube tray, where in theory, each area is isolated from the others, and from any news, rumors, grumbles, woes, and potential expressions of dissent that might emanate from there. It also serves to limit trade that could challenge the government’s control over the distribution of things the people need.

For your consideration: if the North Koreans are counterfeiting our currency, in what sense would it be wrong for us to counterfeit and introduce fake travel passes to the North Korean black market, a market that continues to develop in spite of the regime’s best efforts to strangle it?