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There's so much we don't know about North Korea.
Very few people ever see inside the oppressive regime, and even fewer manage to escape it, so we rely on the accounts of those who've experienced it first-hand to build us a picture.
One of those people is Wong Maye-E, the leading North Korea photographer for the Associated Press, which set up a bureau in downtown Pyongyang in 2012.
Singaporean Maye-E has been photographing the hermit state for three years now, but perhaps one of her most fascinating collections is a set of photos taken with an instant camera.
Focusing on single subjects, she snapped portraits of the people who call North Korea home and asked each one of them for their name, age, occupation, and their motto.
Their answers often reveal the chilling result of lifelong indoctrination and an unwavering loyalty to their leader, Kim Jong-Un, but we also see a human side of Pyongyang that is rarely shown.
Photograher Wong Maye-E snapped portraits of the people who call North Korea home and asked each one of them for their name, age, occupation, and their motto. Pictured below is Sin Ye Suk, 50, a homemaker and the chief of the people's unit at the apartment block she lives in. She says "I devote my life to helping others."
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This is 19-year-old Jang Sol Hyang. She's studying mathematics at Kim Il Sung University. Her motto: "Being a girl doesn't stop me from upholding the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un and it drives me to be even better."
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May-E visits North Korea once a month, usually for 10 days at a time. The secretive regime ensures all foreign visitors — including Wong Maye-E — are shadowed by a minder at all time, meaning they monitor her movements and see all her photographs.
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