Excursion to North Korea (Part of 1)

Even before the Associated Press announced the creation of its office in Pyongyang, the photographs of David Gattenfelder gave the world an idea of ​​how North Korea lives. Then the country, by way of exception, allowed the main photographer of Azerbaijan in Asia to attend some of its events. Now that the bureau is already working, new photos of Gattenfelder allow you to take a closer look at the daily life of the DPRK.

1. The traffic controller on one of the main streets of Pyongyang, 13 on April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

2. A performance involving thousands of Koreans raising colored posters and making up the image of Kim Il Sung, the stadium in Pyongyang, February 19 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

3. Soldier cap on the table in the People’s Library of Pyongyang, September 17 2008. On the wall are the immutable Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

4. Thousands of Koreans make a portrait of a child in uniform from color posters, 19 September 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

5. Pyongyang at sunset, September 16 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

6. Juche monument from the hotel window, Pyongyang, 16 September 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

7. A guide before a diorama depicting the battle for Dechon during the Korean war 1950 of the year, Pyongyang, 16 of September 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

8. Badge with a portrait of Kim Il Sung in the uniform of the DPRK Army lieutenant in the demilitarized zone, Kaesong, 18 September 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

9. Layout terrain demilitarized zone. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

10. Tramways, Pyongyang, September 19 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

11. The car passes by students taking pictures on Kim Il Sung Square, 17 September 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

12. A crane at the top of an unfinished hotel Rügen in Pyongyang, September 19 2008. Construction began in 1987, but was suspended in 1992 due to economic difficulties. In 2008, after the 16-year pause, work was resumed in collaboration with the UAE. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

13. People pass near newly built apartment buildings in Pyongyang, 19 September 2008 of the year. In honor of the 60 anniversary of the state, the Koreans launched a large-scale project of restructuring the capital. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

14. Empty square in Pyongyang, February 27 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

15. Pyongyang tram, February 27 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder, File)

16. The shadow of the 170-meter Juche Idea Monument, March 9 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder, File)

17. An exhibition of stuffed animals at the Changwang Elementary School in Pyongyang, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

18. Children in a subway car in Pyongyang, March 10 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

19. Men at the booth with a newspaper at a metro station in Pyongyang, 10 March 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

20. The center of Pyongyang from the hotel window, 12 April 2011 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

21. The center of Pyongyang from the hotel window, 12 April 2011 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

22. Evening in the center of Pyongyang, April 12 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

23. A poster with a project on the wall around the construction site in Pyongyang, 13 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

24. The girl on the color carpet in the Children's Palace in Pyongyang. The palace is a huge center where children are taught fine arts and acting and conduct classes in various sports. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

25. People at the Kim Il Sung Monument on Mansu Hill, 14 April 2011. 15 April is called the "Day of the Sun" in honor of the birthday of the leader who founded the state in 1948 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

26. Soldiers on excursions to the places where Kim Il Sung's childhood passed, 13 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

27. Pyongyang trolley bus, 15 April 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

28. Concert in honor of 99-th birthday of the founder of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung, 15 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

29. The violinist plays solo at a concert in honor of 99's birthday of Kim Il Sung, 15 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

30. The family is photographed against the backdrop of the Memorial Palace, where the body of Kim Il Sung, 15 April 2011, lies. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

31. The queue at one of the attractions in the center of Pyongyang, 16 April 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

32. Two DPRK soldiers in the demilitarized zone, 17 on April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

33. A small town on the road from Pyongyang to Kaesong. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

34. Monument, symbolizing the hope for the reunification of the two Koreas, Pyongyang, 18 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

35. People on bicycles, end of working day in Pyongyang, 18 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

36. Center of Pyongyang, April 18 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

37. View from the bus window, 18 April 2011 of the year. In the center is the Juche monument. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

38. People on bicycles and on foot cross the railway bridge north of Pyongyang, 19 on April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

39. Two soldiers and a passer-by, Pyongyang, 22 April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

40. Fields near the outskirts of Pyongyang, October 4 2011 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

41. A nurse on the videophone screen at a maternity hospital in Pyongyang, October 11 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

42. Korean football fans in the qualifying match of the FIFA Cup 2012, October 11 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

43. Clearing the area in Pyongyang after a night of snowfall, December 9 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

Comments

[lars]

8. Badge with a portrait of Kim Il Sung on the uniform of a lieutenant of the DPRK army
actually it's a lieutenant colonel

[laurbalaur]

I also thought so, two gaps, and the order straps, as for flying - too much!

[SenyaYa]

Someone would not want to live in this country !!

[Alexander Petrovich]

but I’d live, all the same, I wonder what their life is, probably calmer, in terms of, as you can see from the photographs, there’s no city bustle, I heard that their environment is clean.

[cord]

The apogee of socialism. North Korea is reminiscent of the maddened veteran of the Vietnam War - it threatens someone and somehow suffers from a whole bunch of frustrations and all this with an eternal shortage of food products.

[Georg Shep]

Recognizable face of communism.

[vadimus]

I. No traffic jams

[recitatorus]

It smelled of something Soviet !!!
But actually this photo series is not about North Korea, but about Juche, the dictatorship, again about Juche, about the wretched life in the collapsed trolleybuses, and again about Juche! Hollywood also looked at Moscow! ..

[Cadet]

The photographer coped with the task. The gloom and desert of the streets, a little beauty on the occasion of the celebration of the celebration in the name of leaders ...
"Do not go children to Africa for a walk ..."

[Piligrim]

Damn, as if he returned about 25-30 years ago. They even froze fashion ...
And the eyes! Fear and not confidence in them.
And smiles! At least one smiling face ...

[Gur]

))))) smile Shura smile, they love idiots))) P and p ets ... where you saw fear and not confidence .. psychologist)))) The photographer had such a task, probably not beauty and happiness to shoot these people. For smiles and confidence ... this is to us, and even better to Jamaica, there every second smiling and so cheerful. It’s hard for them, of course, I don’t argue, but for whom it is easy, you want to be an individualist to be different from the majority of those who leased themselves and the country to America .. have to endure. Our patient broke down in the 90s, but "Bush's legs" were full of belly, now we can't get rid of all the "greenhouses", it can be seen just in the place with these legs and delivered. Yes, and read the whole country to London and New York was taken out.

[755962]

Faces like an eraser erased. A gloomy emptiness in the eyes ... Loneliness ..... Suppresses.

[mpanichkin]

Kapets seemed to be at the beginning of 80x, although in 80x we had much more colorful!

[Igor Vladimirovich]

One-sided view of reality.

[Region-25.rus]

Dear Igor Vladimirovich! The photographer showed what is !!!
1. I haven’t been to North Korea myself, I have visited quite a lot in South (I live nearby)!
I will say what I saw personally! When you go home along the Sea of ​​Japan (in winter, if you usually pressed against the Korean coast, the wave is smaller and the wind is quieter), then up to 38 degrees N the whole coast in lights, constant monitoring and inquiries, movement on the sea like on Broadway! After how it cuts! Darkness and darkness! Everyone who can try to tear themselves away from the North Korean coast - away from sin!
2. Although I was not there, I talked with those who were for various reasons somehow:
went on ships with various cargoes, was under arrest (forced violation of the ter. waters due to shelter from a storm), was on business trips, etc. Their impression is just reflected in the photo (although I saw the photo and worse).
3. Communication with North Koreans - started at school! In 1989-91. Two boys studied with us - the sons of employees of the North Korean consulate (it still functions in our city). Well, then we were still children, but when they left for their homeland you would have seen the longing in their eyes !! And they are not "mere mortals" but children of the local "elite"!
Met with sailors of North Korea in the ports of Japan and China! A heavy feeling (((drooping faces, stiffness and gloominess! We go to dismissal when we want, buy what we have enough money for ... and they have no access to the shore! The ramp is lifted and they stand there and look sadly at the shore! And deputy politician walks and controls!
There are also guest workers here! For them, the worst punishment is deportation to their homeland! At best, a prison! And even worse!
And, the photographer showed only the capital! In the villages, it’s even worse! And, despite the lack of electricity, the coastline is surrounded by wire fences under current!
There are cases when rafts with refugees were dragged by their own patrol vessels (which were still underway) even further from the coast and shot! just shot without trial!

conclusion - the photographer didn’t need to show anything intentionally!
here is the material in the topic http://world.menu.ru/travel/781-drugoj-mir-severnaya-koreya-33-foto-video-rasska
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[vostok]

Reminds the USSR, in the prince, judging by the photo, everything is not so bad, life goes on.

[vostok-47]

Damn, we could take a picture in the summer, otherwise it looks gloomy ......

[qwz_qwz]

Everything is gray, gloomy, people have gloomy faces, of course the photographer could and specially to underestimate everything, but the fact that they need reforms in the likeness of the Chinese is a fact.

[dmitreach]

The country is a sect. At a time when the entire civilized world is mastering the matrix of cameras, in Pyongyang, the leaders are mastering matrix images, where people are used as pixels ... Journalists under the leader are still filming ... Remember how the Great Helmsman drove to Russia on an armored train ... and His journalistic pool with photo / movie cameras, which you can only meet in the museum.
All North Korea, for me in two frames: 1. Traffic controller and 43. Clearing the area in Pyongyang. And perhaps 4. Thousands of Koreans make a portrait of a child in military uniform from colored posters, as a symbol of attitude to manual labor, for a cup of rice.
And I also remember the classic: "No, I love Mr. PeZhe more!"
or: This is not an airship, bastard! This is Mr. Peje's Last Breath.
Thanks to the author for the photo tour.

[dmitreach]

Environmental control - strict structuring of the environment in which communication is regulated, and access to information is strictly controlled.
Mystical manipulation
The requirement of purity is a sharp division of the world into “clean” and “unclean”, “good” and “bad”.
“Holy science” is the declaration of one's dogma as absolute, complete, and eternal truth. Any information that contradicts this absolute truth is considered false.
Doctrine is higher than personality - doctrine is more real and true than personality and its individual experience.
The presence of a charismatic leader
The system is closed from external society, censorship.

Which of the above is not in North Korea? The aforementioned signs are used by lovers of truth in a "crusade" against "totalitarian sects."
Poor Koreans! When the son of a local god-feudal lord changes his throne and divine title to the possibility of traveling with children to Disneyland, what else can you comment on?
If the North Korean system collapses, we will get another wave of mass suicides, in the manner of Japan after the Second World War. There, too, people believed in the emperor ... and they had the same brains in bulk copy / pastels.
We passed when we exchanged the USSR for chewing gum and cola, and this is betrayal. But what is happening in North Korea, once again witnesses the saying: if you want to know what kind of person really is, give him power. What do we see in Korea as an example? Caste, reverence, feudalism.

UEF: This is not an airship, bastard! This is the last breath of Mr. PJ.
VIOLIN: Nonsense! How could one person breathe so much air before death? Absurd.
BI: Fear the sky! ПЖ is alive! And I am happy!
UEF: And I'm even happier.

[Passing]

People, have brains, this is typical Western propaganda, there was an order to remove squalor and hopelessness, the photographer honestly worked out the bucks. Clicking such pictures in any country is not a problem; in the same New York, slums are not far from the Statue of Liberty, i.e. shining skyscrapers from one angle, and wretched hacks under another.
Here is an example photo of normal photographers:

[Olegovich]

Wow! So to speak for objectivity.
I was personally surprised that the architecture is one-on-one USSR-ovskaya. If it weren’t for the photo captions, then some are our cities.
And so, yes indeed, as if a journey into the past. (+)

[aksakal]

Quote: Passing by

People, have brains, this is typical Western propaganda, there was an order to remove squalor and hopelessness, the photographer honestly worked out the bucks. Clicking such pictures in any country is not a problem; in the same New York, slums are not far from the Statue of Liberty, i.e. shining skyscrapers from one angle, and wretched hacks under another.
Here is an example photo of normal photographers:

Plus, it’s amazing how with the help of just photo samples the same country can be shown in different ways.
And it’s good that there are forum users who are interested in the DPRK to some extent, and they can even find a photo different from that provided in the article.

Although the photo article is also nothing, nostalgia! Especially the photo with tram tracks - Alma-Ata of the 70s smelled
And now Almaty cannot be distinguished from any other metropolis - concrete, glass, porcelain stoneware, paving slabs, traffic jams
Guys, the easy liberalization of the economy in the DPRK by the Chinese type promises very good commercial opportunities
Chinese goods are becoming more expensive (of course, with the same improvement in quality). And the DPRK is a rather developed power in the scientific (I repeat, in the scientific, and not in the economic) aspect - in my opinion, they themselves learned how to make ballistic missiles there and good air defense systems and even help Iran in this. These are not at all simple products; they can already be used to judge the scientific potential of the state. And the "top volta with rockets" is just a dull acuity that does not have a grain of truth. In real life, the same Upper Volta will never be able to produce even a simple aircraft in the foreseeable future without talking about high-precision ballistic missiles.
So, with the liberalization of the DPRK economy along the Chinese model, after some short time, this country can offer radio engineering, electronic and other technological products for prices that are not dreamed of in the wildest dreams . Disposable mobile phones will become a reality - a battery has been inserted, a SIM card has been removed

[zlibeni]

I especially liked the pink high-rise building

[LiRoy]

The main indicator of life in the country is the average life expectancy which in North Korea is 72 years, which is 6 years more than in Russia.

[Horde]

... cool roads are empty !!!

[zlibeni]

cool just do not forget that you have cars there, it wouldn’t be
only a bicycle))))))))))))))))))))))))

[Blad]

In a country where there is a national idea, there will never be such a mess and arbitrariness as we had after perestroika. Well done Koreans if they do not interfere, this people will achieve a lot