
The American couple who met on vacation in North Korea
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Ryan Carlson and Shauna Cheng met when they both booked an organized tour to North Korea in 2005 and bonded over a mutual love of travel.
(CNN) — Ryan Carlson was in the middle of a backpacking trip in New Zealand when he got the email: North Korea was opening its borders to American tourists. It was September 2005. Carlson, 25, worked in finance as an independent futures trader in Chicago, a job that afforded him a lot of flexibility for travel. North Korea had been on Carlson's to-visit list for a while, but the notoriously secretive, isolated nation hadn't allowed US tourists to enter since 2002.
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