Life in North Korea, never seen (Photo)

Life in North Korea, never seen (Photo)

With an authoritarian regime lasting over seven decades, North Korea remains one of the world's most closed places. This may soon get worse, as the Trump's administration is preparing to pass a ban on American tourists who want to visit North Korea, as it arrested [...]

This may soon get worse, as the Trump's administration is preparing to pass a ban on American tourists who want to visit North Korea because it recently arrested an American student, and turned him into a coma of neurological trauma that later cost him death.

What had greatly shocked some visitors to North Korea was poverty, outdated infrastructure and tight government control, Periscope broadcast “Bussines Insider”.

But even under strict government regimes, people still find ways to spend their lives. So goes some North Koreans in the last days of July:

The photograph of “Associated Press”, Wong Maye, has documented life in North Korea since 2013. Although accompanied by a government guard all the time, she still picks up clear moments seen in the following photos./Periscopi/

A man keeps his daughter as they leave the Pyongyan circus on Tuesday, July 25th 2017, Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

Northern Cereans start their day early, since approximately 59% of the population work abroad.

A man looks out the bus window at the end of Tuesday's day of work, July 25, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

In schools, Korean-North Children are taught patriotic songs, they honour the portrait of current leader Kim Jong-un, and they study for the nearest life of former Judge Kim II-Sung.

A student walking among soldiers at the end of a working day Tuesday, July 25th, 2017, Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

Many North Koreans live in high, packed apartments like this. Many buildings face electricity shortages and elevator breaks.

 

Sunset on the walls of a residence building at the end of a working day Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

Most government cars belong to state organizations, ordinary citizens travel by bicycle, walk, or use public transportation to get to work.

A man is pushing his bicycle along the Kim II Sung Square, as seen by “Grand People Office House” on Monday, July 24, 2017, Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

The “Grand People's Study House” is the main library of Pyongyang and one of the only countries in the country with public access to the Internet with the North Korean computer network system.

People reading in “Grand People's Study House” on Monday, July 24, 2017.

 

Despite the large number of white tie workers, most North Korean offices work without Internet or even computers.

A man reads the local newspaper shown in a holder as others look through the information on the computers of “Grand People's Study House”, Monday, July 24, 2017.

 

North Koreans also go to the library for lessons, such is the class for learning Chinese as in the photo below.

The building is located at Kim II Sung Square and serves as the central library, where North Koreans also learn such languages as English, Chinese, German and Japanese.

 

While the country has few restaurants and cafes, large offices have cabinets where workers feed.

People get drinks at the bar of the “Grand People.

 

In recent years North Korea has experienced an increase in food shortages. Two in five North Koreans have been malnourished since basic products such as soybeans, eggs, meat and food oil are hard to find in local stores.

A little girl plays security track in front of a store on Sunday, July 23, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

Poverty is even more severe in North Korean villages.

The muary on the face of a North Korean woman resting in the Pothong River on Sunday, July 23, 2017, North Korea.

 

Former squad agent “bomb” (police force division designed to disperse explosive devices) Jong II Hyon, 44, had this photo of an untold bomb that his team had found near the railway from Hamhung to Pyongyang.

North Korea is one of many countries still dealing with the explosive legacy of major wars.

 

North Koreans still find bombs and rockets from the Korean War that began in 1953.

On this Friday, July 21, 2017, in this photo, the men and boys rest at a construction site on the outskirts of Hamhung, North Korea's second largest city.

 

In northern Korea's provinces, people often swim in streams and rivers.

A girl dressed in a swim suit walking across the river in the middle of the field on Tuesday, July 20, 2017, in Hamew, North Korea.

 

With few cars, highly regulated entertainment sites (Pyongyang has about 8 total cinemas) and frequent power cuts, most North Koreans go early to sleep.

A student walks across a parking lot after a group of women block a bus to the forehead of residence buildings Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

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