Statue of a skier in front of mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

North Korean propaganda fresco depicting Kim il Sung and Kim Jong il in front of mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Workers' Party monument in the snow, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Computer room in children's palace, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

View of the skiing slopes in winter, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Fire made by Kim jong-suk during the anti japanese war and kept in paektusan secret camp, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Kim il Sung statue in paektusan secret camp, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Houses in a village in the countryside, Ryanggang Province, Rimyongsu, North Korea

River crossing a village in the countryside, Ryanggang Province, Rimyongsu, North Korea

Propaganda billboard near Rimyonsu waterfalls, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

North Korean man pushing his bicycle on a snowy road, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Begaebong hotel sign in the snow, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

New apartment houses in the snow with a view on mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Houses at the foot of mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

North Korean employee walking on runway Samjiyon airport, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Statue of a ice skaters in front of new apartment houses, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

North Korean children going to school in a snowy road, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

New apartment houses in the snow, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Hotel hallway with a painting of Kim il Sung and Kim Jong il in front of mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

North Korean students with a red flag walking on the steps of the nation's heroes in mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Propaganda slogan above the entrance of a building saying let us accomplish the succession by continuing the great revolutionary success of juche!, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Statues in the Grand monument of lake Samji, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Two North Korean women drying mushrooms on the road, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Baegaebong hotel at the feet of mount Paektu, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

View on Samjiyon hill with skiing slopes in summertime , Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Sport building in front of the skiing slope , Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea

Smiling Kim il Sung on a propaganda fresco saying the great leader comrade Kim il Sung will always be with our people, Ryanggang Province, Samjiyon, North Korea