People travel on a trolleybus in central Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Men carry plastic flowers in central Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A man carries a bicycle down the stairs in central Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Officials accompanying foreign reporters stand near a rocket themed marry-go-around at kindergarden of a factory reporters visit on a government organised tour in central Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





North Korean children wave during their tour on the Yalu River in Sinuiju, near the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 8, 2016. (Photo by Jacky Chen/Reuters)





North Korean children wave during their tour on the Yalu River in Sinuiju, near the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 8, 2016. (Photo by Jacky Chen/Reuters)





A bird flies as a man works on the balcony of a residential building in central Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Newspapers with pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un addressing the ruling Workers' Party congress are placed inside one of halls of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Foreign reporters and their guides are reflected in the window of the kindergarten of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A girl yawns behind a rocket shaped merry-go-around with North Korean flag at the kindergarten of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women wearing traditional dresses with pins of pictures of former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il welcome foreign reporters on a government organised visit to the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman stands before pictures of former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il visiting the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters to the factory in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A loudspeaker blasting propaganda music is placed inside one of halls of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A girl rides a bicycle past a rocked shaped merry-go-around as official guides accompanying foreign reporters stand behind at the kindergarten of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Newspapers with pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un addressing the ruling Workers' Party congress are placed inside one of halls of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A girl sits behind a rocket shaped merry-go-around with North Korean flag at the kindergarten of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A man passes by an achievement chart placed at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Children look through the window of the kindergarten of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Children look through the window of the kindergarten of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Women work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Children enjoy a rocked themed merry-go-around during government organised visit for foreign reporters to the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





A woman working at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile mill fixes a machine during a government organised visit for foreign reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea May 9, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Workers operate machinery at a silk factory in Pyongyang on May 9, 2016. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





North Korean women working in the Kim Jong Suk silk mill are seen during a press tour on Monday, May 9, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Only about 30 of the more than 100 invited journalists brought into the country to cover the biggest political event in North Korea in decades have been allowed inside the meeting hall to see the proceedings, Monday. Officials have kept the foreign media busy with trips around Pyongyang to show them places North Korea wants them to see. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)





Children play at a day care centre for children of workers at a silk factory in Pyongyang on May 9, 2016. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





Pedestrians wait to cross a street in Pyongyang on May 6, 2016. When one of the world's most secretive states opens the door to the international media, it keeps a firm grip on the handle. Some 130 journalists flocked to North Korea at the express invitation of the Pyongyang authorities to cover the opening of a rare ruling party congress. They got within 200 meters of the venue, the April 25 Palace, and that was where they were stopped – on the other side of the road, under a steady drizzle that had been falling on the capital all morning. Instead of a rare glimpse of the country's highest-level political meeting for almost four decades, the media were then offered a tour of the March 26 Electric Cable Factory. North Korea issues reporting visas sparingly and escorts all journalists to make sure it sets the agenda and gets its point across. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)