Inside North Korea

Cult of personality, relentless propaganda, martial choreography of the masses, a seemingly synchronized, hysterical population, and failing infrastructure - North Korea presents itself in its bizarre strangeness like a Stalinist cabinet of curiosities from another world. Oliver Wainwright, journalist and photographer for the Guardian, offers rare insights into a country that has isolated itself from the world like no other. His photographs of North Korean architecture shed light on the ambitions of the ruling regime to transform the entire country into a socialist fairyland.