North Korean soldiers and civilians pose for souvenir photos in front of a fountain as they tour the grounds of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on April 25, 2013. North Korea on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the founding of its military, which began as an anti-Japanese militia and now has an estimated 1.2-million troops. [Credit : David Guttenfelder/AP]
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North Korean soldiers and civilians pose for souvenir photos in front of a fountain as they tour the grounds of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on April 25, 2013. North Korea on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the founding of its military, which began as an anti-Japanese militia and now has an estimated 1.2-million troops.

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A North Korean boy on rollerblades is pulled by a woman on a bicycle on April 24, 2013, on a road south of Kaesong, North Korea and north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas. [Credit : David Guttenfelder/AP]
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A North Korean boy on rollerblades is pulled by a woman on a bicycle on April 24, 2013, on a road south of Kaesong, North Korea and north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas.

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A North Korean boy rides in a bicycle’s basket on a road north of Kaesong, North Korea on April 24, 2013. [Credit : David Guttenfelder/AP]
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A North Korean boy rides in a bicycle’s basket on a road north of Kaesong, North Korea on April 24, 2013.

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A North Korean soldier looks out of the window of a guard tower, on the banks of Yalu River on April 16, 2013. [Credit : Jacky Chen/Reuters]
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A North Korean soldier looks out of the window of a guard tower, on the banks of Yalu River on April 16, 2013.

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A child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium to celebrate the birthday of the country’s first leader, Kim Il-sung on April 15, 2013. [Credit : David Guttenfelder/AP]
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A child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium to celebrate the birthday of the country’s first leader, Kim Il-sung on April 15, 2013.

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A North Korean woman walks past the outer wall of a construction site where a propaganda billboard depicting the launch of North Korean rockets in Pyongyang on April 13, 2013. The billboard reads: “Let’s open up an era to a strong economic country.” [Credit : David Guttenfelder/AP]
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A North Korean woman walks past the outer wall of a construction site where a propaganda billboard depicting the launch of North Korean rockets in Pyongyang on April 13, 2013. The billboard reads: “Let’s open up an era to a strong economic country.”

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Two military officers admire displays at a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after the late leader Kim Il Sung, while models of rockets and missiles are also exhibited in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 12, 2013. [Credit : Alexander F. Yuan/AP]
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Two military officers admire displays at a flower show featuring thousands of Kimilsungia flowers, named after the late leader Kim Il Sung, while models of rockets and missiles are also exhibited in Pyongyang, North Korea on April 12, 2013.

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North Koreans dance beneath a painting of late leader Kim Il Sung during a mass folk dancing gathering in Pyongyang on April 11, 2013. The gathering marked the anniversary of the first of many titles of power given to leader Kim Jong Un after the death of his father Kim Jong Il. [Credit : David Guttenfelder/AP]
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North Koreans dance beneath a painting of late leader Kim Il Sung during a mass folk dancing gathering in Pyongyang on April 11, 2013. The gathering marked the anniversary of the first of many titles of power given to leader Kim Jong Un after the death of his father Kim Jong Il.

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Female North Korean soldiers patrol along the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on April 11, 2013. [Credit : Jacky Chen/Reuters]
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Female North Korean soldiers patrol along the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on April 11, 2013.

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A man takes a rest on the banks of the Yalu River at the North Korean town of Sinuiju across from the Chinese city of Dandong, in northeastern Liaoning province on April 10, 2013. [Credit : Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images]
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A man takes a rest on the banks of the Yalu River at the North Korean town of Sinuiju across from the Chinese city of Dandong, in northeastern Liaoning province on April 10, 2013.

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reportagebygettyimages: Photographer Irina Kalashnikova visited North Korea in the summers of 2008 and 2009, accompanying Glyn Ford, a former British Member of the European Parliament, and part of their foreign policy delegation responsible for relations with North Korea. She writes: Almost every aspect of life in North Korea is suffused with politics, and with the efforts by the authorities to encourage a cult of hero worship around the republic’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, and the current ruler, his son, Kim Jong-il. In the place of advertising hoardings that you find in most cities are billboards showing the faces of father and son, along with slogans telling the citizens of one of the poorest countries on earth that they are living in a worker’s paradise. Pictures of both men are inside every office, shop and school. See more from this feature on the Reportage Web site. CAPTION: PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - AUGUST 2008: A scene at Kim Jong Suk Nursery in Pyongyang, named after Kim Il-Sung’s first wife who died during childbirth in 1949. On the wall is a picture of Kim Il-Sung. (Photo by Irina Kalashnikova/Reportage by Getty Images)
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Photographer Irina Kalashnikova visited North Korea in the summers of 2008 and 2009, accompanying Glyn Ford, a former British Member of the European Parliament, and part of their foreign policy delegation responsible for relations with North Korea. She writes:

Almost every aspect of life in North Korea is suffused with politics, and with the efforts by the authorities to encourage a cult of hero worship around the republic’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, and the current ruler, his son, Kim Jong-il. In the place of advertising hoardings that you find in most cities are billboards showing the faces of father and son, along with slogans telling the citizens of one of the poorest countries on earth that they are living in a worker’s paradise. Pictures of both men are inside every office, shop and school.

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CAPTION: PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - AUGUST 2008: A scene at Kim Jong Suk Nursery in Pyongyang, named after Kim Il-Sung’s first wife who died during childbirth in 1949. On the wall is a picture of Kim Il-Sung. (Photo by Irina Kalashnikova/Reportage by Getty Images)

A North Korean soldier washes his socks as his comrade washes his hands at the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on April 8, 2013.  [Credit : Jacky Chen/Reuters]
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A North Korean soldier washes his socks as his comrade washes his hands at the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on April 8, 2013. 

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reuterspictures: REUTERS/Jacky Chen On the banks of North Korea The Yalu River provides a unique vantage point for photographers to glimpse life in the secretive North Korean state.
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On the banks of North Korea

The Yalu River provides a unique vantage point for photographers to glimpse life in the secretive North Korean state.

A North Korean soldier looked through binoculars near the border village of Paju, South Korea on March 19, 2013. [Credit : Lee Jin-man/Associated Press]
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A North Korean soldier looked through binoculars near the border village of Paju, South Korea on March 19, 2013.

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An image depicting a female North Korean soldier leading an artillery attack is projected on a large screen behind singers and the Unhasu Orchestra during a concert to mark International Women’s Day in Pyongyang, North Korea on March 8, 2013. [Credit : Jon Chol Jin/AP]
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An image depicting a female North Korean soldier leading an artillery attack is projected on a large screen behind singers and the Unhasu Orchestra during a concert to mark International Women’s Day in Pyongyang, North Korea on March 8, 2013.

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