A soldier carries stones at a building project at the Masik Pass, in the south of the country.

Dusk falls over central Pyongyang.

A man checks his bicycle beside a propaganda billboard, at Kaesong, north of the demilitarized zone.

A soldier working as a guide walks through a forest said to have been the campsite where the Great Leader spent the night while leading a battle against the Japanese, at the foot of Mount Paektu. The mountain has a mythological status in both Korea and China, as it is seen has the ancestral home of the Koreans and the Manchus. It is also celebrated as the birthplace of Kim Jong-il.

Illuminated portraits of North Korea's late leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, glow amid the darkened buildings of central Pyongyang before dawn.

A traffic policeman stands at the center of an intersection in the North Korean capital.

The curtain rises on a group of singers about to entertain visiting VIPs at the Mansudae Art Theater.

Officials look up at members of the military, seated in a Pyongyang stadium during a mass meeting called by the Central Committee of North Korea’s ruling party.

Thousands of people turn colored placards to depict a saluting child, during mass games at a stadium in Pyongyang.

Senior members of the military approach an area where Kim Jong-un and other military and political leaders stand, during commemorations of the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong-il, at Kumsusan Memorial Palace.

Women perform in a massed synchronized swimming show to commemorate the birthday of the late leader Kim Jong-il, the day before he would have turned 70. As a grand finale they performed to the song, ‘We Will Defend General Kim Jong-un at the Risk of Our Lives’.

A video shot during the mourning period for the late Kim Jong-il screens during a concert celebrating what would have been his 70th birthday.

A textile worker guides rolls of North Korean flags into a trolley at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Factory.

A camera embedded in a wall records inside an auditorium at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace.

North Korean and South Korean soldiers face each other over the demarcation line that separates the two halves of the peninsula, in the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom.

A woman walks past construction-site hoardings and a propaganda billboard depicting the launch of North Korean rockets. The billboard reads ‘Let’s Open Up An Era To A Strong Economic Country’.

An official raises his hand in front of the camera of a foreign photojournalist.

The satellite that North Korean officials launched with the country's UNHA-3 rocket is shown to the media at Sohae Satellite Station.

A woman sits beside plants and models of military weapons at a festival for the ‘Kimilsungia’ and ‘Kimjongilia’ flowers, named after the country's late leaders.

A frilly cover protects a computer monitor at an office in the capital.

Light shines through a window onto a goldfish tank, inside a Pyongyang office building.

Relatives of a hospital patient bring a blanket and other items, during a visit to Pyongyang Medical College.

Nurses speak on telephones at a video conference booth inside the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. Hospital officials say that new mothers and infants are expected to stay isolated from the public, and the possible germs they carry, for at least a week after their baby is born. These conference booths allow visitors to see the newborns and speak to the mothers from a seat in the lobby.

Children perform at the Pyongyang Kyongsang Kindergarten.

People gather to watch fellow swimmers diving from a high-dive platform, at a newly opened swimming pool.

People dance to popular local music in a Pyongyang park.

A student learns to drive a tractor on a computerized driving simulator at the Samjiyon Schoolchildren’s Palace, in the north of the country.

A farmer cranks up his tractor in a field north of the city of Kaesong.

Men work in a field in Songchon County, in the center of the country.

A woman walks along a road south of Pyongyang.

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