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A Look Inside the Stalinist State

• Sept. 9, 2003: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il salutes during a celebration to mark the country's 55th birthday in at Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square.
• Jan. 22, 2003: Light snow falls as a North Korean soldier watches journalists and others at the border village of Panmunjom.
• April 28, 2003: A man draws a picture at a park in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.
• Feb. 26, 2003: A North Korean soldier looks through a pair of binoculars as South Korean soldiers, foreground, stand at the border village of Panmunjom, north of Seoul.
• April 29, 2003: Residents make their way through rain in Pyongyang, North Korea.
• Jan. 11, 2003: A large portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il looms over a crowd of 1 million people packed into Pyongyang's main plaza, the Kim Il Sung Square.
• Nov. 13, 2002: Women queue up at a government-run Public Distribution Center (PDC) in Chongjin city, North Hamgyong province of North Korea.
• April 29, 2002: Soldiers holding rifles march during the opening event of Arirang Festival at Pyongyang's May Day stadium, North Korea.
• Sept. 18, 2002: Workers use shovels as they work on reconstruction of the railway link between South and North Korea, at the Chongnyun Station in Onjungri, North Korea.
• Nov.13, 2002: Workers sort micronutrient-enriched biscuits at a U.N. World Food Programme-supported factory in Chongjin city, North Korea.
• Young children at a North Korean nursery watch U.N. aid workers deliver food in Sariwon city, near Pyongyang in the photo taken early October, 2001.
• Feb. 22, 2000: This 1-meter resolution close-up satellite image of the southern area of the Yongbyon nuclear facility in North Korea, was taken by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite.
• Sept. 19, 1997: A farmer separates kernels of corn for drying outside his home in Popdong County, Kangwon Province
• April 1997: A malnourished boy stands outside the Oop Nursery in the town of Pyongsan in North Hwanghae province, near Pyongyang, North Korea
• Dec. 1996: Spent nuclear fuel rods, kept in a cooling pond, are seen at the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, North Korea.

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