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Influencers behaving badly? YouTubers test limits chasing views in North Korea

Wave of videos from Pyongyang marathon shows visitors taking risks for content that could endanger themselves and locals

In his latest videos, the Danish YouTuber “Adventure Jones” boasts that he “sneaked” into North Korea  after finding “a gap” into the country. He portrays himself as a rule-breaker, showing images of Korean People’s Army soldiers in Pyongyang right after clips of guides explicitly prohibiting such filming. He also revealed a “pornographic” tattoo on his body at a taekwondo demonstration and joked to nervous guides about injecting heroin.

“You will see in these videos how I took some really big chances, and way too risky, which could have had fatal consequences in different ways,” he says,