Female North Korean soldiers on patrol along the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. From picture desk: live - the best news images of the day.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un looks at the latest combat and technical equipment of the Korean People’s Army in an undisclosed location.
Picture desk live: the best news pictures of the day
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North Korean school boys play with an Associated Press photographer’s professional camera on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, while he snaps them on his smartphone using Instagram. In January foreign visitors were allowed to bring mobile phones into North Korea for the first time and this week the local service provider, Koryolink, is allowing foreigners to access the Internet on a data capable 3G connection on mobile phones.
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Happy new year?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un saw in the new year with an unexpected broadcast seen as reaching out to incoming president south of the border.
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‘Kim made this newspaper’s editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile.’
The online version of China’s Communist party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator as the Sexiest Man Alive – not realising it is satire.
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Building work started on Pyongyang’s 105-storey Ryugyong hotel in 1987 but developers say it will open soon … ‘probably’
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Han Jong Sim, the star of Comrade Kim Goes Flying, the first North Korean film to screen at the South Korean festival since 2003. The movie, about a young woman who runs off to join the circus as an acrobat, won the award for best director at the two-yearly Pyongyang international film festival last month.
looking at a monitor
Much like his father, Kim Jong-un also likes looking at things if his recent trip to an amusement park is anything to go by:
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A choir sings during the concert to commemorate 100th birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994
North Korea’s military staged a huge funeral procession in the snowy streets of the capital, Pyongyang, for Kim Jong-il, readying a transition to his son, Kim Jong-un. What appeared to be live footage from North Korean state TV showed the procession moving slowly through the streets against a backdrop of audible mass outpouring of grief from an estimated 200,000 mourners, mostly in military uniform
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