Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

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The Associated Press has received permission to conduct a week-long tour of North Korea. For seven days, photographer David Guttenfelder traveled around the country. The end point of the route was Paektu Mountain, and along the way, the journalist took these photos. It is worth saying that the photographer could not talk with ordinary people who met him along the way, and he traveled all the way under the gaze of the guides.

(Total 20 photos)

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Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

1. Portraits of North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are illuminated on a building against the backdrop of dawn in Pyongyang. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

2. Picnic by the road in the province of Hamgyongbukto. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

3. After lunch at a restaurant in Wonsan. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

4. A Korean pushes a bicycle into a village in the province of Hamgyongbukto. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

5. Statues of animals playing musical instruments stand along the road south of the city of Samsu. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

6. A Korean takes shelter from the rain next to a long wall with propaganda posters in the city of Samijon. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

7. A boulder near the top of the Paektusan volcano in the province of Yanggando. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

8. An exclamation point at the end of a long propaganda slogan in the province of Hamgyongbuk-do. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

9. Korean fries potatoes and chicken on a fire in the province of Yangando. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

10. An apartment building can be seen outside the hotel window on the main street of Hamhung. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

11. Koreans go along the river in the city of Kimchaek. Once-productive cities along the east coast, like the coal-mining town of Kilju and its neighbor Gimchaek, built around a large but now eerily quiet iron foundry complex, have become the country's drab and dirty industrial belt. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

12. An employee of the hotel for the resettlement of foreigners in Chongjin. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

13. A man deals with the engine of his car near the sea in the city of Wonsan. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

14. Peasants in the rain near the city of Hyesan. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

15. A group of young people enjoy a picnic on the beach in Wonsan. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

16. A car allocated to the Associated Press climbs the slope of Paektusan Mountain. North Koreans revere Paektusan for its beauty, but most importantly, it is considered the birthplace of the revolution. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

17. Boys play football in the city of Hyesan. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

18. Schoolchildren help repair potholes on rural roads in the province of Hamgyongbukto. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

19. Residents of North Korea sit next to the railway tracks in the town of the province of Hamgyong-bukto. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

Traveling North Korea with David Guttenfelder

20. A woman on a highway southeast of Pyongyang. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP Photo)

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