Associated Press have now opened a bureau in Pyongyang. There have been problems, but here AP photographer David Guttenfelder shows the results of a trip he took with a colleague after they were granted "unprecedented access" to parts of North Korea: "Though much of what the AP journalists saw was certainly orchestrated, their access was still remarkable."
[AP Photo/David Guttenfelder]
Buildings sit next to a small body of water in an unidentified North Korean town along the highway from Pyongyang to the southern city of Kaesong, photographed on April 17, 2011.
More on "the revolutionary essence and characteristics of socialist architecture" here.
Also at In Focus (entirely unrelated, but quite fun): Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle.
Mick Hartley 
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