Living under a dictatorship: Eye-opening images pry open a window into everyday life in North Korea - as America blacklists leader Kim Jong Un for his 'notorious abuses of human rights'
- Pictures have emerged showing everyday life inside the secretive capital of North Korea, Pyongyang
- The images depict workers painting huge flags with no safety equipment and mourners carrying flowers
- The eye-opening snapshots offer a rare and eye-opening glimpse of life under the secretive dictatorship
- Emerge as the US blacklists North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for his 'notorious abuse of human rights'
These images lift the veil on the bleak everyday lives of the citizens of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
From workers painting a huge national flag with no safety equipment, to children driving electric cars around squeaky-clean political monuments, the eye-opening snapshots offer a rare glimpse of life under the secretive dictatorship.
Other images show queues of commuters standing in wait at a bus top, and another solemn looking congregation of mourners carrying flowers to the birthplace of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung.
The snapshots emerge as The United States for the first time blacklisted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for his 'notorious abuses of human rights' towards those living under his iron-fisted rule.
The move is intended to boost international pressure on the country to improve its infamous human rights abuse record, which includes detaining 80,000 and 120,000 prisoners to languish in political prison camps.
Workers paint a huge North Korean flag with no safety equiptment at Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea
A woman watches a child driving an electric toy car at the Monument to the Founding of the Workers Party of Korea
Commuters wait at a bus stop an image which lifts the veil on the bleak everyday lives of the citizens of Pyongyang
A pedestrian stands at the entrance to an underpass: The images offer a rare insight into life under the secretive dictatorship
A solemn looking congregation of mourners carry flowers to the birthplace of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung
The snapshots emerge as The United States for the first time blacklisted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for his 'notorious abuses of human rights'
The move is intended to garner international pressure on the country to improve its notorious human rights abuse record
Visitors walk through a pavillion during a tour of the birthplace of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, before the Pyongyang city skyline
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