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North Korea remains a grim enigma — a lone totalitarian state that few outsiders manage to visit. We glimpse military parades and marvel at the colorful propaganda, but we seldom get much of a sense of what it's like to live there. But these Instagram photos give a remarkably vivid look at ordinary life in North Korea.

 

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Students in coats and gloves, working at computer connected to the local Intranet in The Grand People's Study House, Pyongyang, January 2013

 

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A doctor and a bank of video monitors inside a Pyongyang hospital, February 2013

 

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North Korean men work to fix a public trolly bus in Pyongyang. On the street is a grid of painted white dots used to mark the marching steps during mass parades on Kim Il Sung Square, September 2013

 

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Three North Korean soldiers on a motorcycle with sidecar, October 2013

 

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In a factory, Pyongyang, October 2013

 

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on National Geographic Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/natgeo/posts/10154374258598951

 

Explore the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in this intriguing time-lapse of a city rarely seen by foreigners.

Explore the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in this intriguing time-lapse of a city rarely seen by foreigners.
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Interesting what the fallout is in Kim Jong Nam's assassination. The WP reports from the Global Times:

 

 

Nevertheless, as commentator Ding Gang wrote in the Global Times, it has not made the task of reining in North Korea’s nuclear program any easier —and that’s not good news for China.

“North Korea’s nuclear facilities and missile bases are located near China’s border,” he wrote. “Once the situation in the Korean Peninsula spirals out of control, the facilities will be primary targets or the final fortress of North Korea's defense. Either way, the effects on China will be severe.”

The murder of Kim Jong Nam, he warned, could reinforce destabilizing calls for tougher action to force “regime change” in Pyongyang.

“People in the U.S., Japan and South Korea will more likely opt for hard-line approaches, which will trigger nuclear security problems,” he wrote. “We had better prepare for a nuclear emergency in North Korea rather than wasting our time discussing who is behind the assassination.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-china-a-sense-of-betrayal-after-the-assassination-of-kim-jong-nam/2017/02/17/434d7626-f4f0-11e6-8873-a962f11835fb_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop&utm_term=.3b7afaebfe6f

 

In that article, China says it has intelligence that says NK is looking for better relations with the US and Japan. China recently turned away a shipment of coal from NK.

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Kim Jong Un's "Army of Beauties"

 

A Night Out With North Korea’s Cheerleaders: Matching Snowsuits, Military Discipline and Chaperoned Bathroom Trips

The arena was never louder than it was after Sweden scored the first of eight goals and the North Korean cheer squad immediately sparked a rousing, flag-waving chant of “Cheer up!” that was joined by nearly everyone in the stadium.

 

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They sang and chanted for another 15 minutes after the final buzzer. When they were done, they waved toward the nearly empty stands and called out “Goodbye!” They then congregated on the concourse and waited in silent, straight lines as some members broke off into small groups to use the restroom. Minders from the South Korean government followed each group inside.
Then, re-forming into two straight lines, they streamed out of the arena and onto their caravan of buses, which rolled away bathed in the blinking red and blue lights of a fleet of police cars.

 

 

 

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Sounds like they're opening up quite a bit with what they're allowing for photography

 

This is a YouTube playlist - as of today, he's posted three episodes. Check them out if you're interested. I've watched all three.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbuZlTBpC7I&list=PLN0FlxE6vY5DlAPO1runQHOZSYyxePI1O

 

I have no idea who he is, what country he's from, or why he's in North Korea.

 

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It's complicated. From the NY Times on Facebook

 

  • North Korea is accusing him of bringing Covid-19 across the border. A South Korean news outlet says the 24-year-old man was wanted for questioning over a rape accusation.

 

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But North Korea said on Sunday that the North Korean man was “suspected to have been infected with the vicious virus,” ​adding that he could be the country’s first virus case. And the reverse defection prompted the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to order a total lockdown of Kaesong, a city of 300,000 people ​on the border with South Korea, and declare a “maximum” national emergency.

 

But South Korea officials could not say whether the man might have ​carried the coronavirus across the border.
He had never been tested for the virus, Yoon Tae-ho, a senior official at the South’s national disease-control headquarters, said on Monday, and he was not known to have been in contact with a coronavirus patient. ​ The South Korean health authorities have tracked down two people who had frequent contact with the defector while he was in the South, and both tested negative, he said.

 

 

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