Driving around the capital city, it looks like a normal populated city. Lots of people walk in the streets since there isn’t heavy traffic. While his guide drove him around, the photographer managed to get a shot of everyday life.
”He would conveniently slow down whenever the surroundings were impressive, and speed up whenever they were less pleasant, to make them more difficult to photograph.”
This was the train station in Pyongyang and it certainly was a strange sight for the photographer. His train was the only train that day, so you would expect the station to be pretty much empty, but it wasn’t. Photographer Michael Huniewicz said the station looked staged, like a theatrical performance.
Everyone was dressed nicely and looked like model citizens going on a train ride, which struck him as very unusual.
This is the entry point to North Korea where you board the train to take you there. When Michal arrived, it was pretty much deserted.
I guess traveling to North Korea isn’t a popular thing to do.
North Koreans don’t have the freedom to leave the country whenever they wish. The government has watchtowers and guards everywhere to make sure that their own people don’t escape. If caught, you will be thrown in a concentration camp and you could even be put to death if you are revealed to be a traitor.
If the Chinese catch you escaping, the men will be sent back and women will be sold to Chinese men.
While traveling through the countryside of North Korea, all you are going to see is miles and miles of farmland. Here we can see rice fields being tended to by the locals.
They have to use feces to make fertilizer after South Korea cut them off.
