Excursion to North Korea (Part of 2)

In this post - the second part of the selection of photographs of David Gattenfelder from North Korea 2008-2012's. Since 1948, when the state was created, North Korea had only two rulers: Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il was the DPRK leader for 17 years, and his death on December 17 of 2011 marks the end of an era for North Korea.

1. Smoke factories over Pyongyang, December 9 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

2. Night passersby on the street in the center of Pyongyang, December 8 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

3. A man crosses a snow-covered street in the center of Pyongyang, December 9 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

4. Passengers leave the airport building to take a flight to Beijing, December 9 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

5. All the time at the post near the Pyongyang airport, December 19 2011 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

6. North Korean soldiers in the village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, 17 on April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

7. North Korean soldiers in the village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, 17 on April 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

8. Cyclist on the outskirts of Pyongyang, January 15 2012. A month after Kim Jong-il's death, life in the DPRK begins to return to its normal course. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

9. Pedestrians on the street in the center of Pyongyang, January 16 2012. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

10. Children play in the yard, Pyongyang, January 17 2012 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

11. Fields near Pyongyang, February 11 2012 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

12. Pedestrian bridge over the Putun River, February 12 2012. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

13. Cyclist on the Embankment of the Putun River, Pyongyang, 12 February 2012. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

14. People lay flowers on the portrait of the deceased leader Kim Jong Il, February 16 2012 of the year. If he were alive, he would have turned 70 that day. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

15. North Korean military at the parade in honor of 70-th birthday of Kim Jong-il, February 16 2012 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

16. Early morning 26 February 2008goda in Pyongyang. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

17. People on the street in Pyongyang, February 26 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

18. The girls perform a song called "Generalissimo Kim Il Sung danced with us" in front of a delegation from the New York Philharmonic, February 27 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

19. Soldiers at the ceremony of laying flowers at the portrait of Kim Jong-il on the New Year's Day according to the lunar calendar, Pyongyang, January 23, 2012. Koreans did not cancel New Year celebrations, despite the mourning of the second ruler. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

20. Koreans are photographed in the building of the Bolshoi Pyongyang Theater after the concert of the New York Philharmonic, February 26 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

21. Hall of the National Library in Pyongyang, February 26 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

22. People ride bicycles through the snowy streets of Pyongyang, February 26 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

23. Two Air Koryo aircraft at Pyongyang Airport, February 25 2008. During the Cold War, flights to Moscow, Prague and East Berlin flew from here. Today, outdated Soviet cars make rare flights around the country. Flights to China or Russia are very rare now. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

24. North Korean military and politics at the Pyongyang airfield, February 27 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

25. The traffic controller at the intersection in Pyongyang, September 16 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

26. Schoolgirls on the Pyongyang Embankment, September 17 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

27. Women in the stadium in Pyongyang during the "mass games", 17 September 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder

28. Women in the stadium in Pyongyang during the "mass games", 17 September 2008 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder

29. Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, April 15 2011 of the year. Until the death of Kim Il Sung in 1994, the palace was his residence. Now it is a mausoleum where both embalmed leaders of the Kim family rest. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

30. A woman is protected by an umbrella from the heat, Pyongyang, 26 August 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

31. Portraits of the chiefs in the lobby of a building in Vason, DPRK, 6 October 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

32. Portraits of chiefs on the wall at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, October 5 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

33. Portrait of Kim Il Sung on the field, Vason, DPRK, October 6 2011 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

34. Local production sweaters in department store # 1 in Pyongyang, October 9 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

35. Korean football fans in the qualifying match of the FIFA Cup 2012, October 11 2011. The DPRK team played against Uzbekistan. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

36. Soldiers and fans at the stadium in Pyongyang before a football match, October 11 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

37. Newborn girl in Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, October 11 2011. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

38. Synchronized swimming in celebration of 70-th birthday of Kim Jong-il, February 15 2012. After the girls spoke at the end of the ceremony, the song "We will protect General Kim Jong-un at the cost of our lives" was played. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

39. Salute and parade on the celebration of 70-th birthday of Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, February 16 2012 year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

40. Koreans applaud at the sight of a portrait of Kim Jong-il, February 16 2012 of the year. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

41. Koreans answer the teacher's questions in an English class, February 26 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

42. The traffic controller at the intersection in Pyongyang, February 26 2008. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)

Comments

[lars]

The photographer is a fan of regulators.
Many photos are about nothing ...

[itr]

What was given to take pictures was taken!

[predator]

traffic lights are probably expensive.

[Kyrgyz]

And with such a movement, why are the signs of traffic lights and traffic controllers?

[Gur]

And no traffic jams to you, beauty and ecology besides ... eeeeeh would help them .. all the same, fighters against American imperialism ...

[cord]

Yeah, they fight so that there’s nothing to eat in the country. When exchanging the development of nuclear technology for a plate of rice, all these heroic attempts look like a fight against windmills. It is not surprising that the people there, as at the time of the partition of Germany, at the earliest opportunity, give a blow to South Korea

[Gurza]

Of course, of course, the whole world should live exclusively as the United States orders, you are absolutely right Kord. And it’s absolutely unimportant that most likely the same thing will happen with their country as with Libya, but they will have chewing gum, nice clothes, and so that the soldiers will go home and kill civilians, it’s all worth it. I support Kord! Just tell the orderlies that they will not forget to give you the medicine.

[cord]

And it’s absolutely unimportant that most likely the same thing will happen to their country as Libya, but they will have chewing gum, nice clothes, and so that the soldiers will go home and kill civilians, it’s all worth it

No, the medicine, just, I don’t need)) Trenches have not yet begun to dig and stock up on foil caps?) By the way, did you find your slippers in the morning? Or were they again treacherously abducted by agents of the State Department?) The whole world should live in such a way that nuclear technologies do not have to be exchanged for a bowl of rice.) And it would be nice to send all forum women from imperialism to such a Korea for a month. More than sure, in a week, without access to the Internet, they will break and they will climb in the front ranks to storm the borders of South Korea)

[Gurza]

No, the medicine, just, I don’t need)) Trenches have not yet begun to dig and stock up on foil caps?) By the way, did you find your slippers in the morning? Or were they again treacherously abducted by agents of the State Department?)

no no, my friend, I will definitely write to your doctor, the treatment does not work, your iq tends to zero uncontrollably, besides, check your eyesight and hearing, due to a number of revolutions in the countries of north africa, the preparations for the intervention in Syria and Iran, you are completely blind and have gone deaf and do not see that the most peaceful country in the world, namely the United States, needs the very same peace, so they are actively ready to bring democracy and "peace" to everyone

The whole world must live in such a way that nuclear technologies do not have to be exchanged for a plate of rice.

What a reasonable idea, it was just scientists from the USA who said that the produced resources would be enough for every inhabitant of the planet to live in full abundance, but capitalism ... pieces of paper, an artificial economy requiring war .....

And all the forum women with imperialism would be nice to send here to such Korea, for a month

I would go with my girlfriend with great pleasure, ride around the country, stay in nature, look at everyday life, take a break from work!

It’s interesting, but you, proud defenders of democracy, American falcons in Russia, if you are thrown into Afghanistan, admit, will you make a necklace out of your ears? You can call it democratic beads.

[Horde]

Yeah, they fight so that there’s nothing to eat in the country

, and where did you get the idea that there’s nothing to eat there?

[cord]

29 February 2012, 19: 13

Pyongyang agreed to limit military activity, including abandoning nuclear weapons tests in exchange for food aid from the US, Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced Wednesday.

In addition to nuclear weapons tests, the DPRK agreed to introduce a moratorium on long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment activities at the Yonben nuclear facility. Pyongyang also agreed to inspect its nuclear facilities by IAEA inspectors.

In exchange, the United States will agree on the final details of the provision of the promised food aid to the DPRK and will take other steps to improve bilateral relations, Reuters clarifies.

[Georg Shep]

Communist concentration camp of the East Asian type.

[Gurza]

Why a concentration camp?

[Georg Shep]

Can't you see it on people's faces? In the daytime you won't find a person with fire on the streets. - everyone is in the "workplaces". After all, there people go to work in formation. Doesn't that look like anything?

[Rodver]

So it's great. It turns out that for work - as for a holiday.

[Piligrim]

And so we once lived!

[Gur]

Yes, we didn’t live like this when, we had everything, and a happy childhood, and candy pads, and condensed milk in three-liter jars. They walked around in a crowd, they put what was at home on the table, didn’t bother with the delicacies, but they were all slender and beautiful. As for the worship of the rulers, so after the death of Stalin, I did not see such servility. So it's not yours.

[755962]

How few people on the streets.

[Gur]

From the fact that you’re ..... they’re like that .. but they don’t work, when, under Andropov’s rule, they decided during working hours to check who is in stores, in cinemas, etc., the results were simply amazing .. . Well then there was a country, a plan, now the country seems to be there, there are not any plans, each for itself and for itself.

[Igor Vladimirovich]

photographer in shock. with the same success, and maybe big, you can show the same states that hair will stand on end. the Americans themselves proved this with their own films. they have everything that draws - where it turned, it turned out there.

[sevas]

I recently chatted with North Koreans. their life is hard. they work at a construction site. do not receive money. the contractor pays the money to an intermediary from the Moscow embassy. and in Korea, their families are given food stamps. as workers they are so-so. not better than Tajiks.
but their brains were really washed. when their leader died, they did not work for two days and sincerely worried. sat and cried, as if they had lost a loved one.
they have been working in Russia for three years. and they already speak Russian normally.
they don’t complain about life, they just live.

[vostok]

Why don’t they take the path of China’s development, I feel sorry for the people.

[sevas]

Recently traveled around the area. and photos of the Russian village and abandoned military facilities may compete with the Korean.
And plus to everything - AWESOME DRINKING !!!!

[37dmds]

More interesting sketches by Artemy Lebedev http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea. And with humor and variety.
And here are staged photos. The author filmed what was allowed to shoot. Foreigners in Korea are assigned censorship in the form of accompanying persons.

[Gurza]

Thanks for the link, I really liked the material. Especially the photo with the machine

Here in the course (except Pyongyang) trucks with a gas generator, that is, on wood. Such trucks do not go fast, and the smoke comes from a steam locomotive. Naturally, they constantly break down, people go out of the truck to smoke, the driver delves under the hood. It’s completely impossible to shoot it, I even had to erase this photo in front of the guide:

Just how did he erase it if he posted it?

[37dmds]

I think the author should have written the word "erased" in quotation marks. The guide was clearly not on friendly terms with the number. The author's actions to "erase" him clearly satisfied.

[aksakal]

In the first part I unsubscribed - DPRK - just while a sleeping and powerful dragon. It can go along the GDR route (with absorption by the South Koreans) or without unification with Seoul along the Chinese route. In my opinion, the Chinese way is preferable.
The Germans of the GDR are not very happy with the unification, they thought they would explode in development, but it wasn’t there. Inequality in living standards and overall development compared to Germany is still exactly the same and has not gone anywhere since then.
They will go along the Chinese path - they will quickly catch up with Seoul.
Why? The fact is that with an undeveloped economy, the DPRK nevertheless develops science - at least that there would be scientific support for the army and educates the people - there, in my opinion, it is tough. When liberalization begins (granting economic freedoms without giving political freedoms), there will be a base (already there) of science and literate people. Therefore, after a short time, the DPRK can show frantic economic growth. In Latin America, for example, this is impossible - there is no science (almost) and no literate population (living in favelas, it is very difficult to become a scientist). Well, except that okromya Cuba - there it is difficult for me to evaluate. But medical science in Cuba seems like nothing

[LiRoy]

All the same, Koreans are masters to organize beautiful mass events.

[blackidler]

The idea is of course very good, but not in the same amount.
I would not want my children to live in such a country