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North Korea is the most secretive, walled-off nation in the world. Its totalitarian regime demands total obedience. Its citizens cannot travel or speak to foreigners without permission. Propaganda clouds what is real and what is not. In July’s eye-opening story in National Geographic, writer Tim Sullivan and photographer David Guttenfelder used their access as journalists for the Associated Press to move around the country and peer beyond the facade. “We’ve traveled to collective farms, attended countless political rallies, and visited Pyongyang hot spots like the Gold Lane bowling alley”, writes Sullivan, “where the capital’s elite hoist battered balls made in America”. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo/National Geographic)
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