Renowned documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he took arresting photographs of Pyongyang and its people—images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West. They show stark glimmers of everyday life in the world’s last gulag.Also, North Korea has the fourth largest standing army in the world?
Monday, April 20, 2009
North Korea
Kim Jong Il reigns over an isolationist wonder. These photos are chilling:
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