Most pictures available outside North Korea are of Pyongyang. That’s because tourism is restricted to the capital, and border control staff check — and delete— “unauthorised” photos from devices leaving the country.
But in a twist of luck, Beijing-based Getty photographer Xiaolu Chu’s train going from Moscow to Pyongyang stalled for a while in the remote village of Tumangang, in the northeastern tip of North Korea.
Tumangang Station
Tumangang Railway Station
Image: xiaolu chu/getty images
With a rare chance to see life outside of Pyongyang, Chu snapped pictures on his mobile phone and successfully managed to smuggle them out last August. Read more…
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