{"id":13194,"date":"2024-07-11T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:10:29","slug":"rare-images-show-what-life-is-really-like-inside-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13194","title":{"rendered":"Rare images show what life is really like inside North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pictures were taken in a remote part of the North Korean\/Chinese border<\/h2>\n

Rare images show what it is like to live in North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

North Korea<\/a>\u00a0is a very difficult country to visit on a regular year, however, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the country tighten up it’s borders in 2020.<\/p>\n

Even if you were able to travel to there, there’s a ton of rules that come with it.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0country<\/a>, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, it has been under the rule of The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) since it was created in 1948.<\/p>\n

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It is the sole party in power and its leader is Kim Jong-Un, who in 2011 succeeded his father Kim Jong II – who preceded his father Kim Il Sung.<\/p>\n

According to<\/a>\u00a0Smart Traveller, there are strict policies on what you can and can’t bring into the country, with political, religious or pornographic items being a big no-no.<\/p>\n

And if you are thinking about doing your best impression of Kim Jong-il from\u00a0Team America<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>then best think again as mocking the country and it’s leaders can also get you into a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n

Similarly, taking photographs that doesn’t glorify North Korea is\u00a0illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PEDRO PARDO\/AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/div>\n

However, people ‘lucky’ enough to make it into the country were only allowed to take pictures of public tourist landmarks and sights – in fact, if they took a photo of anything else they could be thrown in jail.<\/p>\n

Now, four years on from Jong-Un making the country even more private – if that was even possible.<\/p>\n

Photographer Pedro Pardo visited the Chinese and\u00a0North Korean<\/a>\u00a0border to take some snaps of what life is really like in the state-run country.<\/p>\n

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PEDRO PARDO\/AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/div>\n

The stealthy snapper gained access to the border in\u00a0China’s<\/a>\u00a0Jilin province to take pictures of the glum-looking nation – with them dating between February 26 and March 1 of this year.<\/p>\n

The pictures portray what life is really like, as one picture depicts the town of Chunggang and shows dozens of houses that look exactly the same.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there is a huge sign facing towards China, and quite childishly, or humorously, which translates to ‘My country is the best!’.<\/p>\n

In another picture, Pardo snapped from Tumen in China, North Korean soldiers working on the border – as well as a government building in Namyang.<\/p>\n

He also managed to take a picture of a watchtower in North Korea’s city of Hyesan – which depicts a soldier wearing a face mask spotting him, and what appears to be a dummy looking out the window of the structure.<\/p>\n

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Since the beginning of\u00a0the pandemic<\/a>, North Korea has been using ‘expanded fences, guard posts, strict enforcement, and new rules, including a standing order for border guards to shoot on sight’, a bleak new report from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Released on March 7, the report was titled ‘A Sense of Terror, Stronger than a Bullet: The Closing of North Korea 2018\u20132023’.<\/p>\n

HRW analyzed satellite images of the country’s borders and found that between 2020 and 2023, North Korea had built a total 482km of new fencing in the areas and enhanced another 260km of primary fencing that had existed before, The Independent\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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