These are photos from a four day trip in North Korea - September 9-12, 2011. Our guides were great but also quite conscious of every step we took. So some of these images are more documentary than anything else.

It was an interesting four days though and a unique opportunity to see some sides of how a country separated from the rest of the world functions. While the propaganda was more than I expected, there were some moments, like bumper cars at a theme park with soldiers and their kids, that were good reminders that people are people are people, whether in North Korea, the US, Hong Kong or anywhere.

I went to North Korea with Koryo Tours.