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Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles: Tomas van Houtryve’s arresting photos of North Korean life. “This is shopping in North Korea. The clerk sits in the dark, unheated special store, waiting to turn on the lights for foreigners, the only permitted customers. “She’s wearing a ski jacket or parka; the rest of this time they’re sitting there with the lights off, freezing,” van Houtryve says.”

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles: Tomas van Houtryve’s arresting photos of North Korean life.

“This is shopping in North Korea. The clerk sits in the dark, unheated special store, waiting to turn on the lights for foreigners, the only permitted customers. “She’s wearing a ski jacket or parka; the rest of this time they’re sitting there with the lights off, freezing,” van Houtryve says.”
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