The photos were taken by photographer Eric Lafforgue, who has visited North Korea six times, taking risks to sneak photos and smuggle banned photos out of the "world's most secretive country".
Since 2008, Belgian photographer Eric Lafforgue has visited North Korea six times. The photos he took with great difficulty and had to hide to bring out of North Korea help the world have a more multi-dimensional view of the most mysterious country in the world.
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A little grass man in Pyongyang. |
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A group of men helped push a broken down car in the middle of the road. |
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A woman sits selling goods on the side of a bumpy dirt road. |
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The streets in Pyongyang are very wide but there are very few cars. |
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An outdated pump used to drain water into a bathtub in a bathroom in North Korea. |
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An old but unrenovated building in the capital Pyongyang. |
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A man sleeps on the rocks by the sea in Chibo. |
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It is possible to take photos in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, but if photographers get too close, North Korean soldiers will stop them. |
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A skinny North Korean boy raises his hand to greet the camera. |
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A man carrying a gas cylinder on the street. |
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A woman hangs blankets to dry on a fence on the banks of the Teadong River. |
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North Korean soldiers go get firewood. |
According to Dan Viet