For decades North Korea, or the Democratic People s Republicof Korea (DPRK), has been a country shrouded in secrecy fromthe outside world. Little is seen of the totalitarian regime of KimJong-il, son of the great leader Kim Il-sung, or the people of oneof the few Communist-ruled countries in the world. As a clandestine nation with nuclear ambitions, NorthKorea was only recently taken off the U.S. list of states thatsponsor terrorism whilst international NGOs count humanrights in North Korea as some of the worst in the world, withsevere restrictions on their political and economic freedoms.Freedom of the press is non-existent. Photographer Irina Kalashnikova and Glyn Ford, a Britishmember of the European Parliament, visited North Korea inAugust 2008. Cameras and visitors are both tightly regulated,yet they managed to bring back unique images of a populationthat were often far removed from our Western preconceptions. Beaches and mud baths, hairdressers and hospitals, farmsand karaoke...

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