Pedro Pardo took photos of a remote part of North Korea's border from China's Jilin ... and many of its citizens face high poverty levels and severe food shortages. The CIA says the country ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luca Pferdmenges, a 23-year-old German travel influencer who was among the first Western tourists to visit North Korea since 2020. The ...

He toured North Korea for five days and four nights ... Travel guides, instead of concealing the poverty, only advised not to take pictures because the houses were old and shabby, but did not ...

Pedro Pardo took photos of a remote part of North Korea's border from China's Jilin province ... and many of its citizens face high poverty levels and severe food shortages. The CIA says the country ...