Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder has visited the most closed country in the world and here are some of the photos he made there.

North Korea – a country of morning freshness and brutal tyranny. Taekwondo and the Juche ideas were born there. For a foreigner to get into North Korea is very difficult, particularly for a photographers – it is prohibited to make photos almost everywhere in the country.

All visitors, even more so, photographers in North Korea are necessarily accompanied by members of the local special services. Therefore, the majority of images below that show nation’s poor condition and underdevelopment were made secretely.

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