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North Korea today: a glimpse inside the forbidden country

July 8 it's 20 years since the death of North Korea's first President Kim Il Sung

On July 8 it's 20 years since North Korea's first President Kim Il Sung died a day after he signed his last decree on rapprochement with the South. Get a glimpse of everyday life in one of the least tourist friendly countries of the world twenty years after its founder's death in this picture story by an ITAR-TASS correspondent.