Taken alone, each portrait could look like smiling propaganda for the authoritarian ... trips Two office workers stand in front of Pyongyang’s Monument to Party Founding. The hammer, sickle ...

The restaurants are called Pyongyang ... It looked like fairly standard Korean food, it was various kimchi, various sort of, soups and meats and so on. It wasn't that much to look at but it ...

China has traditionally viewed North Korea as a security buffer and an ideologically aligned neighbor it can dominate.