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Daily life in secretive North Korea
Selection of images shows behind the scenes life in rogue nuclear state
A transit controller salutes as a bus with journalists drives by in Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
North Korean workers (foreground L) repair a street in Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
North Koreans wait for a bus in Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
A North Korean woman walks past soldiers taking a break in Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
North Koreans workers clean a building with the portrait of late president Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
North Korean women wearing traditional dresses practice their show in the streets of Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
A general view of Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
North Korea technicians work at the satellite control room of the space center on the outskirts of Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea said that the fuelling of a long-range rocket is under way, ahead of the launch scheduled for later this week despite international protests. ‘We are injecting fuel as we speak. It has started’ Paek Chang-Ho, director of the satellite control centre told visiting foreign journalists. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
Paek Chang-Ho, director of the satellite control centre in North Korea speaks to journalists outside the satellite control room of the space center on the outskirts of Pyongyang on April 11, 2012. North Korea said that the fuelling of a long-range rocket is under way, ahead of the launch scheduled for later this week despite international protests. ‘We are injecting fuel as we speak. It has started’ Paek Chang-Ho, director of the satellite control centre told visiting foreign journalists. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial rocket launch scheduled in coming days to bolster his grandson’s credentials. (AFP/Getty Images)
