Inside North Korea

A mural of 'Eternal Leader' Kim Il-Sung in central Pyongyang, North Korea, 2009.

A child sings at a performance inside the lavish Children's Palace, an after-school for privileged children in Pyongyang, North Korea, 2009.

The games room and bar in a hotel near the International Friendship Exhibition (two halls of gifts given to Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il) and Pohyun Temple in northern North Korea, 2009.

A minder watched visitors closely in The Tower of the Juche Idea (east bank of the Taedong River) in Pyongyang, North Korea, 2009.