Camera on North Korean Missile Captures Earth from Space
North Korea's official state media has released a set of photos captured from space that it says were taken from a camera mounted on one of its missiles designed to deliver a nuclear warhead.
North Korea's official state media has released a set of photos captured from space that it says were taken from a camera mounted on one of its missiles designed to deliver a nuclear warhead.
Kim Jong-un's personal photographer has reportedly been fired for breaking the dictator's photography rules. The photographer's offense? Standing directly between Kim and a crowd for just three seconds and blocking the view of Kim's neck with a camera flash.
North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un is in Singapore this week for Tuesday's summit with President Trump, and of all the photos that have emerged of his visit so far, there's a curious one that has captured the world's attention today: Kim Jung-un's very first selfie.
In 2011, former AP president Tom Curly had the ambitious idea that the AP should establish a bureau in North Korea, and the photographer the agency ended up sending to the country is a man you should, by now, be very familiar with: David Guttenfelder.
Guttenfelder's images, both in newspapers and on Instagram, have given the whole world a peek behind North Korea's own Iron Curtain, and in the video above he explains the power of photography as if pertains to this secretive and isolated world.
Did you know North Korea had an official Flickr page? The country's account on the popular photo sharing service made headlines today after it was hacked and defaced by Anonymous.