[HOT LINKS] The images Kim Jong Un doesn’t want you to see

May 9, 2014

 

This Yonhap photo of North Korea was taken from south side of the border last winter.

This Yonhap photo of North Korea was taken from south side of the border last winter.

[MAIL ONLINE]  From children working hard in the fields to a group of soldiers pushing a broken-down bus, these are the photographs that North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, didn’t want you to see.

Taken by photographer Eric Lafforgue during what would prove to be his final visit to the rogue state, the images reveal the shocking extent of the deprivation suffered by the people who live there.

Lafforgue, who has now been banned from North Korea, took the pictures while in the company of state-approved guides and was asked to delete each of the images but managed to save them on his memory card.

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