What Daily Life In North Korea Looks Like

A Tired Mother and her Child

After the photographer snapped this photo at a funfair, the guide asked him to delete the photos. The guide was genuinely afraid that the photographer would post these and say that the mother was homeless. They didn't look homeless and most people would just assume it was a mother and child taking a breather, but the guides were extremely paranoid of how North Korea would be framed in the outside world. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.