North Korea is a special country. It is an absolute monarchy in which the Kim dynasty has been in power since 1948. After the end of World War II in 1945, the Korean peninsula was divided in twoa northern area controlled by the USSR and the southern area controlled by the United States.After a few years of military rule by the Soviets, they chose Kim Il-sung, grandfather of Kim Jong-un, to lead Korea of the North for its marked rejection of Japan.
We are talking about an absolutely hermetic country. Nothing goes in, and nothing goes out. Citizens, except in very specific cases, are prohibited from crossing the border on pain of death, and although there is a bit of tourism, everything is controlled and reviewed to the nearest millimeter. It’s not something we’re used to seeing, so it’s getting a lot of interest, and a youtuber wanted to check if it is possible to send a package to North Korea. He wanted to see if he was coming and what route he was taking, so he used an AirTag, Apple’s tracking device.
We should put an AirTag in every package we send
The well-known youtuber MegaLag, in a video that has accumulated more than two million views, says he noticed that the DHL site allowed shipments to North Korea, and that he wanted to check it. For this, he decided to call on the service of deliver a package with an AirTag to the German Embassy in Pyongyang. Curious that there is an embassy, because not a single German who does not belong to the diplomatic mission is known to live there.
In any case, your shipment has left Düsseldorf for Frankfurt, and he stayed there for a whole month. When he spoke to DHL, they told him they would investigate, but it would take two months, so he decided to make another shipment, this time to a North Korean government commission dealing with the issues. cinematographic.
In two of the three shipments, DHL got the wrong Korea and got them to the South
After DHL’s investigation, the YouTuber learned that they hadn’t found his package and would return his money. However, thanks to the AirTag inside, managed to let the company know his exact location, and the next day they found him. Dot for Apple. Soon after, he was sent to Beijing.
The second package sent by the youtubeur ended up in a warehouse in Seoul. They had sent him to the wrong Korea. However, as soon as they found out, they also sent him to Beijing. Everything seemed to be going well, but the days passed and the AirTags said they were still in the same place. Finally, DHL ended up indicating in the tracking of the shipment that it was not possible to get them to Pyongyang. It seems like the country was not accepting any shipments due to the pandemic.
The YouTuber did not give up and sent a third AirTag to the German Embassy in Pyongyang. DHL made a mistake about Korea again and sent it to the south. Once there, he returned to Germany, from where he had been sent. Last I heard, it is still in a warehouse at the same site.
The truth is that it is a very interesting video. The use of AirTags is brilliant, and although the youtuber failed to get any of the three to North Korea, it is curious to see how the logistics routes work, how an AirTag can locate a package that had been “permanently lost”, and how useful they can be in certain cases.
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