This kind of picture is widespread in the west. The caption often explains that North Koreans eat grass from the park. The guides get furious if you take it.
This kind of picture is widespread in the west. The caption often explains that North Koreans eat grass from the park. The guides get furious if you take it.
Scared: ‘You are supposed to see fun at the Songdowon Children’s Camp but some come from the country and are scared of escalators which they’ve never seen before’
Scraps: ‘I spotted these kids collecting maize grains in the streets near Begaebong,’ explains Lafforgue of this surreptitious shot
Fruits Market, North Korea
Cold shower: A man bathes in the river in the countryside outside Pyongyang. ‘Once you get into rural areas, this sort of thing is very common,’ says Lafforgue
Unamused: ‘The officials hate it when you take this kind of picture. Even when I explained that poverty exists everywhere, they still forbade me from taking them’
Child labour: ‘When times are hard (as they usually are here), children can be found working for the farming collectives,’ explains Lafforgue
Hunger: ‘My camera was confiscated for the duration of the bus trip to Chongjin which suffered in the famine. Once I saw the people in the street, I understood why’
Inside North Korea: The pictures Kim Jong-un doesn’t want you to see
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/790229/USA-v-North-Korea-will-US-attack-Pyongyang-missile-tests-nuclear-threat
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The images Kim Jong Un doesn’t want you to see: Haunting pictures inside North Korea… taken by a photographer who has now been banned from the rogue state for life
are tough elsewhere
by Ruth Styles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2624164/North-Korea-Starving-people-child-labourers-dilapidated-homes-appear-harrowing-new-images-taken-inside-rogue-state.html