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| Talk about lack of public beach access: 1500+ miles of DPRK coastline is lined with an electric fence to deter potential defections by sea |
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| Well-water bathtub in village home |
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| Not a car in sight |
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| Members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards shout anti-US slogans |
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| Desperate soul harvests grass from public park- to eat as a salad |
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| Shopping in supermarkets is a privilege reserved for Communist Party elite and their families |
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| North Korean roads often feature giant roadside blocks, which can be slid onto the road in wartime. They contain debris and shrapnel to inhibit the mobility of tanks in case of a land invasion. |
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| Terrified of being photographed, North Korean citizens hide under boat to avoid cameraman |
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| DPRK TV programming = monotonous cult chant |
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| Interrogators kick the living crap out of woman who wouldn't talk... or perhaps just for fun |
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| 35-year-old Mercedes patrol car |
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| Road work sketchy outside the capitol Pyongyang |
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| Typical dirt-poor Nork village |
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| Industrial towns even more bleak |
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| While urban Pyongyang residents live in soulless Soviet-style concrete panel housing draped with shrill propaganda |
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| Killer heels: legend has it Kim Jong Il hisself ordered female border guards to be dressed in these huge heels and brass-button-cuffed slacks so as to look taller/sexier |
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| They still run steam trains over there |
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| Riverbank laundry session |
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| Black marketeers sell foreign cigarettes, etc. |
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| Just trying to get home: Massive lines form waiting for a seat on the country's overtaxed and outdated public transport |
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| Citizens in a park react with amazement to the sight of a (white) foreigner |
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| Even Pyongyang receives only a few hours of electricity per day |
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| They seem to run out of gas a lot too |
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| Pyongyang traffic girl |