Traveller who visited every country says North Korea nearly put him in prison after friend scattered ashes

For most travellers, visiting twenty countries is an achievement. For Henrik Jeppesen, a Danish backpacker-turned-blogger, twenty was just the warm-up. By 28, he had stood in more than 2,000 destinations and set foot in every UN-recognised country, finishing with Eritrea. He has since settled down with a wife and son, but his years as a nomad gave him enough stories to fill several lifetimes. And one of the scariest stories happened in North Korea. Henrik had survived the Central African Republic (“the worst country I visited,” he once said), run out of water in Samoa, relied on strangers and priests and luck, yet he still insists he would “ much rather live there than live in North Korea .” Because unlike everywhere else, North Korea is the only country in the world where you c