The traffic ladies in Pyongyang appear on almost every street corner of the city, and have become an icon of the capital. Another common sight is people keeping the city clean and tidy like the woman on the right cutting the grass. Notice how the traffic lady stands on a small stone brick in order to avoid stepping on the grass and thereby breaking the law.
A group of people waiting to take one of the public buses that runs the capital. On the rooftop one can read "Hail to our sun, General Kim Jong-Un".
A man holds the hand of a young girl near the Kaeson Youth Park.
The south-east side of Pyongyang, seen from the 170 meters high Juche Tower.
A man cleans the sign of a newly opened pizza restaurant near the Taedong River in Pyongyang. The Italian owner has imported the ovens directly from the motherland, and the local staff are trained in making authentic Italian pizzas for a clientelle consisting mainly of foreign diplomats working in the country.
A representant from the state run media, KCNA, documents a tourist group visiting the Monument to the Korean Workers Party in Pyongyang.
A school class on an excursion to commemorate the fallen North Korean soldiers that are buried at the Revolutionary Martyr's Cemetery. The children, as most North Koreans do, wear pins with the faces of the late leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on the left side of their chests.
A woman and her young daughter on their way in to an apartment complex near the Mansudae Hill. The girl holds a bag of peanuts bought from the next-door stall.
A young girl in a school uniform carries a water container while a man watches from his small shop.
A young soldier at the Victorious Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang.
A family attending the Kimiljungia flower exhibition on "the Day of the Sun", that marks the birth date of the nation's founder Kim Il-sung. The girl to the right holds a digital camera.
According to officials there are two places to buy fast food in Pyongyang, this one near the Youth Hotel being one of them. This McDonald's look-alike serves burgers, french fries, fried chicken and other replicas of fast food sold in the big american franchises.
A little boy playing near the Foreign Language Bookshop, where the majority of the sales items are books said to be written by either Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il.
Two boys showing an interest in the group of tourists lined up outside the Foreign Language Bookshop in Pyongyang.
Highrises in downtown Pyongyang. There are doubts as to how many of the relatively luxurious apartments are actually occupied by people. According to official sources, the state does on occastion reward athletes and scientists who have done "remarkable achievements" the option to stay in the apartments.
Two young North Koreans are fascinated by the foreign presence in the Metro wagon nextdoor.
A group of teenage girls try to contain their laughter when they pass a group of tourists crossing the Okryu Bridge in Pyongyang.
Two women sell postcards and flowers in front of the 170-metre Juche Tower, which symbolizes the eternal flame of the Juche ideology introduced by North Korea's eternal president Kim Il-Sung. Private/unofficial enterprises emerged in the 1990's due to the serious famine that ravaged the country, and has since growed to be an essensial part of the North Korean economy, despite it technically still being illegal.
A man crosses the Taedong River on his bicycle. In the background the outlines of the world's biggest stadium shows itself; The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium can hold an astounding number of 150.000 people.
A young group of students waiting to lay down flowers and bow for the massive statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument.
One of the most recurring myths about North Korea, is the seemingly non-existence of traffic and cars. While this still seems to be valid for the countryside, traffic is steadily growing in Pyongyang – it's avenues, still empty compared to any other city in the world of this size, are frequented by green and yellow taxis and a few luxury cars reserved for the elites living in the city.