An curved arrow pointing right. In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they ...

In this video former prisoners and their captors expose the horror of life inside North Korea's prison camps. They describe forced abortions, impossibly hard labour, starvation and prisoners forced to ...

In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they can and cannot photograph.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

While some images were deleted during run-ins with the police, Chu shared some snapshots with us. Take a look at life inside North Korea.

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Even so, a combination of militancy, internal oppression, and the apparent support of regime elites mean that Kim Jong-un's government still has complete power over North Korea's people.