Women in costumes walk as they participate in Halloween celebrations in the downtown of Seoul, South Korea, October 31, 2015. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

Workers repair a damaged road, in the aftermath of an earthquake, near Anamizu, Japan on January 3, 202. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

People take a walk among cherry blossoms at a park in Seoul, South Korea on April 6, 2022. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

RAF Tornados fly above the Lossiemouth air base on March 18, 2011 in Lossiemouth, Scotland. UK defence forces will help to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya after the UN voted in favour of a resolution that backed 'all necessary measures', except a foreign occupation force, to protect Libyan civilians.

Weakened by sickness and malnutrition, Arbty Mohammad, 2, lies in the Banadir Hospital on August 12, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Some 100,000 Somalis have flooded into Mogadishu from drought and famine stricken areas of the country. The UN warned Friday that a cholera epidemic could spread through Mogadishu, as Somalis fill unsanitary makeshift camps throughout the capital. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

A traffic police officer directs vehicles at a street junction during sunset in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, August 25, 2016. (Photo by Dita Alangkara/AP Photo)

People attend the New Year's eve gala of youth and students at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)

Associated Press photographer Wong Maye-E tries to get her North Korean subjects to open up as much as is possible in an authoritarian country with no tolerance for dissent and great distrust of foreigners. She has taken dozens of portraits of North Koreans over the past three years, often after breaking the ice by taking photos with an instant camera and sharing them. Her question for everyone she photographs: What is your motto? Their answers reflect both their varied lives and the government that looms incessantly over all of them. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)