Eerily empty streets, Soviet-style skyscrapers and state officials on patrol: Undercover camera captures everyday life in North Korea
- Footage, filmed using a Go-pro, offers an insight into the austere country
- Clip takes the viewer through the quiet streets of capital city Pyongyang
- Camera was placed on car to capture the video of everyday life in N Korea
It's a fiercely clandestine country, but an eye-opening new video offers an insight into the austere and guarded world of North Korea.
The footage takes the viewer through the eerily quiet tree-lined streets of capital city Pyongyang, past Soviet-style skyscrapers and symmetrical buildings.
The video, shot on a Go-pro camera attached to a car, shows wide roads that are pristine and almost empty of people and traffic.
Though there are smartly dressed traffic wardens, it is less ordered and formal than one might expect.
Communist North Korea has drawn international criticism for the extent of human suffering which occurs at the hands of the DPRK government.
A UN report earlier this year outlined the stark reality of living conditions there - where every home is fitted with a speaker for propaganda to be blared out, children are taught to draw pictures of Dear Leader and sexual assault by state officials is common.
Pedestrians meander through the streets and Soviet style skyscrapers are seen in the background
The clean streets of Pyongyang: The quiet roads are immaculate, but the scene is stark and lonely
Only around 6,000 foreign tourists visit each year and there are many restrictions to what they can photograph and film. For example, visitors are prohibited from filming construction sites, undeveloped locations or military personnel.
But tourism could increase in the future as Pyonyang recently announced the country's first surf tour, which followed the opening of a ski resort earlier this year.
Around 6,000 foreign tourists visit each year and there are restrictions to what they can photograph
Not recommended: Despite an increase of visitors, the UN advise againsts travelling to North Korea
However, UN Rights Council reported 'systematic and gross human rights violations' happening on a daily basis, calling into question the ethics of visiting North Korea.
'I don't think people should simply go to North Korea as tourists,' said Chair of the UK government's committee on North Korea, Lord David Alton.
'Their visit provides the regime with foreign currency and aids and abets a regime which the United Nations Commission of Inquiry report says is responsible for human rights violations without parallel.'
Harsh reality: A UN report said the regime is responsible human rights violations without parallel
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