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Hey Jen,

So what were you scared of then before going, and how did these fears change after your visit? What surprised you the most about North Korea, and were there many other foreigners besides you?

P.S. I love your attitude. I'm full of passion for traveling, "walking in the shoes of another person", and challenging my boundaries, but I'm relatively young and still getting started (financially restricted). To see someone do "crazy" things like that motivates me and reminds me that it's almost always our own mind, not the environment, that stops us from reaching our goals.

This something I've always wondered. As someone who grew up in Finland, I assumed everybody in the world was using Abloy style locks, as they couldn't just be picked like regular pin locks. The only way anybody with the fire department or the police is going to get inside a Finnish apartment is with a key or a chainsaw.

So why are Abloy style locks not common at all anywhere else in the world?