Photos from war reporter Stephan Gladieu:
A group of woman during a mass dance rehearsal in front of the monument to the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea
In the 3D movie theatre at SCI Tech Complex
O Yong Ae, a traffic woman, poses in the center of Pyongyang. They are chosen for their looks and women must leave the role if they marry, with compulsory retirement looming at just 26
Three workers in a rice field planting rice in Sariwon collective farm
Kim Un Ju and Ri Sol Hwa at Ryugyong Opthalmic Hospital
Kim Su Ryon in the subway
Hong Su Jong at the Kwangbok, or Liberation, department store in Pyongyang
A wall painted in tribute to the North Korean space programme at Munsu water park
Kim Hyang and Kim Ju Hyang pose in the Meari Shooting Range, where Gladieu had hoped to get some less staged shots
A group of children plays with manual bumpers cars at the 700,000 square metre Mangyongdae amusement park
Dr Ri Su Rim examines Yu Hyang Suk at the Zhenghsu Pyongyang textile factory, which has 8,500 workers, 80 per cent of them women
Four students during a break at Kim Il-sung University, which was built in 1946
A farmer works at the Sariwon co-operative farm
Kim Gum Sim and Ryu Song Hyang, at a food factory in Pyongyang's Mangyongdae district. The fifth floor has been turned into a waterpark, complete with pools and basketball hoops, sunloungers, a fish pond, grotto and sauna
Did Kim Jong-un order men to copy his hairstyle? Nothing was entirely clear to the photographer during his visits
Pak Chol Guk on Kim Il-sung Square
Gwang Chol, Ri Son Gyong pose in front of the 50m monument of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang.
Kim Gyong Tae, Gwon Gang Hun and Kim Jong Hyok at Golden Lane Bowling in Pyongyang
[Photos: Stephan Gladieu]
Mick Hartley 
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