Tuesday, April 21, 2009

North Korea: The Land of No Smiles

View the slide deck of pictures which depicts the gulag-like experience of North Korea taken by Tomas van Houtryve and posted at the foreignpolicy.com by clicking here.

From Foreignpolicy.com's Land of No Smiles

``Renowned documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he took arresting photographs of Pyongyang and its people—images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West. They show stark glimmers of everyday life in the world’s last gulag."

Hat Tip: Mark Perry

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