Photo link for images of North Korea
"The few Western photographers allowed to visit North Korea in the last two decades have returned with remarkably similar images. The highly secretive Communist government allowed them to photograph little else but the extravagant pageants honoring their supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, or the immaculate subways in Pyongyang.
David Guttenfelder of The Associated Press has been able to gain more access as the wire service negotiated establishing a full-time news bureau in Pyongyang, which finally opened in January. (A video bureau was opened by Associated Press Television News in 2006.)
Mr. Guttenfelder is now the only Western photographer able to photograph on a regular basis there. He has used all of his extensive talents – and added a new one: acting as an unofficial diplomat between North Korea and the United States.
“I represent the U.S. and the outside world to them,” he said. “But the big responsibility is representing them to the outside world through my pictures – to understand what I see, to try to be as fair as I can and to dig as deep as I can.” IHT
"The few Western photographers allowed to visit North Korea in the last two decades have returned with remarkably similar images. The highly secretive Communist government allowed them to photograph little else but the extravagant pageants honoring their supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, or the immaculate subways in Pyongyang.
David Guttenfelder of The Associated Press has been able to gain more access as the wire service negotiated establishing a full-time news bureau in Pyongyang, which finally opened in January. (A video bureau was opened by Associated Press Television News in 2006.)
Mr. Guttenfelder is now the only Western photographer able to photograph on a regular basis there. He has used all of his extensive talents – and added a new one: acting as an unofficial diplomat between North Korea and the United States.
“I represent the U.S. and the outside world to them,” he said. “But the big responsibility is representing them to the outside world through my pictures – to understand what I see, to try to be as fair as I can and to dig as deep as I can.” IHT
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