The currency note seen on Reddit is a 5,000 won bill with a picture of North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung.
A picture showing North Korean currency notes has surfaced on Reddit. The person who posted the picture has claimed that it was smuggled out of the country. Smiling in a currency note (5,000 won bill) is former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the country’s founder and current ruler, Kim Jong-un. The photo has garnered over 74,000 upvotes on the forum where it was posted five days ago. The image has also sparked lengthy conversations among Reddit users.
A person named John from New Zealand posted the image under the username hospital_in_chi_minh, “I traded it in with a local bus driver and hid it in my socks,” the user captioned the post, adding that he came to the country a few years back.
Other users were astonished by the photo and wanted to know what the person traded. John replied, “I traded 10 notes of the same denomination, which we exchanged for use at the tourist shop. The other notes did not have the leaders’ faces and he was happy to trade 10 times his money.” Were.”
One user said that he also visited North Korea and asked John if he had seen the “extremely deep” subway underground and whether there was a child singing there. “No kids, but yes for the deep subway. It was built as a nuclear shelter as well as a transportation hub. We went to school for gifted kids and a lot of their performances were just for tourists,” he replied.
However, others were concerned about John. “You risked it all for a souvenir,” commented Reddit user D0ctorwh010. Another user Yasai101 said, “No clue why anyone would risk their lives going to these countries.”
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