Hello.
Today is about one little-studied country in the world, getting into it is extremely difficult.
North Korea is one of the most closed countries in the world.
Foreign journalists are prohibited from visiting North Korea. A tourist who wants to come to North Korea must fill a huge bunch of different forms and pay a lot of money for the right to visit the "socialist paradise".
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Each guest of the country is "attached" by a guide and an employee of the Korean special services.
Independent movement around the city is prohibited. A tourist can leave the hotel only with the help of a guide. It is impossible to shoot streets, people and public places.
The special services officer has the right to learn the pictures that foreign guests make.
"Wrong" photos are immediately deleted.
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And in general with the photographs you need to be extremely attentive and cautious.
If you photographed a poster with a picture of the leader, the shot turned out to be incomplete, you do not have enough hands or feet in the frame, then the intelligence services may well create trouble for you, in North Korea this is a crime.
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Most of the population of North Korea lives in the poor. The average salary in the DPRK is 30-50 dollars a month. Products, clothing and essential goods are issued by cards. The diet is quite meager. Most of the population eats corn, rice and vegetables. Meat and confectionery are considered a great delicacy. Tourists can buy themselves food in special currency shops with very high prices.
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Agriculture in North Korea is organized quite primitively. Peasants use buffaloes, hoes and plows to plow the land. Agricultural machinery and fertilizers are used poorly. By and large, North Korea survives due to the fact that China secretly buys coal from it secretly and delivers food. This is not a huge secret for other states and during the recent exacerbation of nuclear weapons, the United States tried to influence the leader of North Korea with the help of China.
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The industry works mainly for the needs of the army, which is one of the largest in the world (1.2 million people). North Korea has nuclear weapons.
The leadership of the Labor Party periodically threatens its missiles with America, Japan and South Korea.
The situation is complicated by the fact that North Korea constantly conducts nuclear tests, which are prohibited by international agreements.
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The car is for an ordinary citizen an unacceptable luxury. The townsfolk walk or walk around the city on bicycles. Every citizen of the country is obliged to watch news on TV every day, telling about the wise policy of Comrade Kim Jong-un and the Korean Workers' Party. At home, you can not have radios, with their help a citizen can catch an "enemy" wave. The idea of the Juche (the Korean version of Marxism) is considered the official ideology in North Korea.
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There is no Internet in North Korea. Instead, it operates an internal computer network with "correct" sites. International communication is blocked, Koreans can call each other only within the country. Every year in North Korea, grandiose military parades and demonstrations of workers are held. These "folk shows" have a pronounced propagandistic character. Representatives of foreign countries are often invited to parades.
Behind all this multicolored tinsel is hunger, bad roads, corruption, political terror and constant violation of human rights. Koreans, who are unhappy with the policy of their beloved leader, sooner or later find themselves in a labor camp. There they are in for heavy physical labor, humiliation and torture.
From time to time, the country carries out public executions.
North Korea is the material embodiment of the "Big Brother", about which George Orwell wrote in his novel "1984".
Thank you.
