A nurse directs foreign journalists at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital during a press tour on Saturday, May 7, 2016 in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





A foreign journalist photographs nurses tending to newborn babies at Pyongyang Maternity Hospital during a press tour on Saturday, May 7, 2016 in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Mothers with their newborn babies are seen on a television screen of a video conference station, used to separate and protect mothers and newborns from visitors' germs, at Pyongyang Maternity Hospital during a press tour on Saturday, May 7, 2016 in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





A patient rests in a room of he Pyongyang Maternity Hospital as foreign reporters visit on a government organised tour in Pyongyang, North Korea May 7, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A phone is placed on a decorated stand at the neonatal ward of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital during a government organised visit by foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 7, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A man looks at reporters visiting the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital on a government organised tour in Pyongyang, North Korea May 7, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A nurse takes care of a newborn baby at the neonatal ward of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital during a visit by foreign reporters on a government organised tour in Pyongyang, North Korea May 7, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Doctors and staff of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital accompany foreign reporters during a government organised visit in Pyongyang, North Korea May 7, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Foreign media films a large portrait of Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il hung in the lobby of an upscale hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Workers repair a Workers' Party poster as the Party's seventh congress gets underway today in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. Leader Kim Jong Un is expected to speak.Other grand and patriotic festivities are also on tap. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Korean youth as they pass by the April 25 House of Culture on the first day of the ruling Workers' Party seventh congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A man walks by the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. The central library was constructed in a traditional Korean style in April 1982 over a period of 21 months to celebrate leader Kim Il-sung's 70th birthday. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Two Korean men walk and chat in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A large screen monitor with patriotic messages in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Workers on the streets in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





What appears to be girl talk between attendants at a gift shop for foreigners at the Yanggakdo Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Women weed and cut grass with hand shears in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 6, 2016. Lawn mowers are extremely rare in this country. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





View of a long row of Mercedes Benz vehicles in front of the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 8, 2016. It's believed that only the top government officials travel in Mercedes. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





School girls practice flag waving in advance of the upcoming seventh congress for the ruling Workers' Partyt this week in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. The last time the Party met was in 1980 and expectations are high this week that there could be an announcement of changes within the party structure. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A Chinese journalist is asked to place flowers at the base of a portrait at the Pyongchon Revolutionary Site during a foreign press tour in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. The site is a former munitions factory, which was visited on several occasions by DPRK founder and late president Kim Il Sung (Kim Il-so’ng), his wife Kim Jong Suk (Kim Cho’ng-suk) and a young KJI. It routinely appears in official documentaries about revolutionary history and on the DPRK’s military industrial complex. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Young children perform a patriotic orchestra in front of patriotic images of missiles and tank ground assaults in the background at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. Mangyongdae is a public facility managed by Korean Youth Corps in North Korea where pioneer members can engage in extra-curricular activities, such as learning music, foreign languages, computing skills and sports. The pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by the communist party. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Young children sing and dance in front of images of young Koreans using computers during a concert at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A bell man at the Yanggakdo Hotel where foreigners stay watches a film featuring American casualties and hitler from World War II in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Children practice dance at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Dance instruction at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Women clean the streets with twig brooms in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 5, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Workers ride the trolley in downtotwn Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Patrons of the Kwangbok (which means revolution) department / grocery store load plastic flowers and food into their trunk in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. The items will likely be used in the upcoming Workers' Party festivities celebrating the seventh congress in their nation's history. The last such event was held in 1980. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





View of Ryugyong Hotel (the unfinished and unoccupied pyramid-style hotel) among towering apartments and other high rises in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Characters on the walls of a day care center / preschool center at what North Korea authorities say was a Jangchon cooperative farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. The homes had vegetable gardens in the front, solar panels on the roofs but didn't appear to be very populated. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A 2- 3 year-old-child holds a toy machine gun during a media tour of a day care / preschool center at Jangchon cooperative farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. Man at left is said to be a farmer there. The homes had vegetable gardens in the front, solar panels on the roofs but didn't appear to be very populated. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A woman sprays fertilizer on vegetables at a greenhouse during a media tour of Jangchon cooperative farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. The homes had vegetable gardens in the front, solar panels on the roofs but didn't appear to be very populated. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A North Korean man walks out of an underpass while seen framed by the Workers' Party flags, in front of the April 25 House of Culture, the venue for the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea has been duly spruced up, the masses prepped for their rallies and leader Kim Jong Un appears to be set to take center stage Friday when North Korea pulls back the curtain on what promises to be the country's biggest political show in years, if not decades: the first full congress of its ruling party since 1980. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Koreans carry bouquets of decorative flowers as they wait at the Kim Il Sung Square on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Koreans carry bouquets of decorative flowers as they make their way towards the Kim Il Sung Square on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Korean women sweep the roads on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





A North Korean woman walks into an underpass while a man uses his mobile phone across the street from the April 25 House of Culture, the venue for the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





A foreign journalist uses his smartphone to record himself in front of the April 25 House of Culture, the venue for the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Foreign journalists are seen filming and reporting from across the April 25 House of Culture, the venue for the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, on Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Bouquets of decorative flowers belonging to North Koreans who have gathered, are placed at the Kim Il Sung Squareon Friday, May 6, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





A North Korean traffic police woman directs vehicles at a street junction while behind her the sidewalk is decorated with flags of the ruling party, the Workers' Party on Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Koreans carry umbrellas as they walk past the April 25 House of Culture, decorated in the colors and flags of their ruling party, the Workers' Party on Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Members of North Korea's ruling party have gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their biggest political conference in decades. Foreign experts say North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un will likely use the meeting to place his loyalists into key positions, strengthen his push to upgrade his country's nuclear arsenal and cement his grip on power. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Pedestrians walk by a flower arrangement and billboard with the words “The 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea” Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Kim Kwang Hyon/AP Photo)





A cyclist rides past a billboard with the words “The 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea” Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Kim Kwang Hyon/AP Photo)





North Koreans walk past a slogan which reads “Great Party, Mother Party” along a sidewalk on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is preparing to hold a once-in-a-generation congress of its ruling party that is intended to rally the nation behind leader Kim Jong Un and could provide an important glimpse into Kim's plans for the country's economy and military. (Photo by Kim Kwang Hyon/AP Photo)





North Koreans push their bicycles in the rain on a pathway along the Pothong River at the end of a work day on Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Military customs officials chat behind an glass obscuring inspections at the main airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. Numerous media are descending on Pyongyang this week as the ruling Workers' Party holds it's seventh congress, a rare and potentially significant gathering. The last time the party met was in 1980. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





Media tour of a day care / preschool center at Jangchon cooperative farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





North Korean men hang out at a liquor and coffee stand at the main airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A korean man waits at the main airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. The newly renovated airport sports liquor and coffee shops, numerous restaurants and a bright interior. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A man pushes his bicycle past the Pyongyang train station which is decorated with the ruling Workers' Party flags Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said during a critical ruling party congress that his country will not use its nuclear weapons first unless its sovereignty is invaded. He also announced a five-year plan starting this year to develop the North's dismal economy and identified improving the country's power supply and increasing its agricultural and light-manufacturing production as the critical parts of the program, state media reported. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Korean school children play in a park Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Korean soldiers stand by a sidewalk while people carrying decorative flowers make their way from the Kim Il Sung Square Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Korean men and women carrying decorative flowers walk from the Kim Il Sung Square after rehearsing for a parade Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





North Korean women carrying decorative flowers walk from the Kim Il Sung Square after rehearsing for a parade Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Two North Korean school girls walk past a kiosk selling snacks to people Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Foreign journalists leave a venue after being told that coverage plans had changed until further notice on Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





A North Korean women uses her decorative bouquet of flowers to shield herself from the sun Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Military personnel run through the pouring rain outside the main airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A picture made available on 06 May 2016 shows a woman in uniform standing before the portrait of Kim Il-sung during the Immortal Flower Festival “Kimilsungia” in Pyongyang, North Korea, 13 April 2016. North Korea will hold the party congress of its ruling Korean Workers' Party for the first time in 36 years on 06 May 2016. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





View of pedestrians as they walk across the streets on the way to he downtown Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photo, North Korean men drink beer at the Taedonggang Beer shop in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ahead of the ongoing congress of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, the nation was called upon to do massive overtime to boost production and show their devotion to leader Kim Jong Un in a 70-day “loyalty campaign”. And that's in addition to the hour after hour of rehearsals for huge rallies when their ruling party wraps up its first congress in decades. So how does a tired North Korean unwind? Beer. Beer. And more beer. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photo, Pak Sun Won, 66, left, a retired physician drinks a glass of draft beer at the Taedonggang Beer shop with his friends in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photo, North Korean men drink beer in the Taedonggang Beer shop in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photo, beer servers Kim Yon Hui, 29, left, and Yang Pok Yong, 42, right wait to serve customers at the Taedonggang Beer shop in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photo, North Korean men gather at the Taedonggang Beer shop in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, May 7, 2016, photo, North Korean men drink beer at the Taedonggang Beer shop in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Koreans on pedestrian bridges in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 4, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





View of pedestrians as they pass by one of many scenes of the late Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





View of a “European” style restaurant inside the main airport in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





View of a guest room at the Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)





A woman directs traffic in the pouring rain in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 3, 2016. The city is preparing for the Workers' Party Congress starting on May 6th. It will be the first time since 1980 that the ruling party has convened. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)