The North Korea that Kim doesn't want you to see: Sweeping dirt under the watch of soldiers, fearful waitresses and unlit streets among fascinating illegal images smuggled out of rogue state

These beautiful - and illegal - photographs allow a forbidden insight into Kim Jong-un's North Korea. Photographer Michal Huniewicz risked being sent to one of the hermit state's notorious prisons when he broke off from an official tour of the country to take snaps of everyday life. Street cleaners sweep pavements for dust under the keen eye of a soldier in one of Pyongyang's parks in one image. Others reveal waitresses working in restaurants where propaganda images are broadcast around the clock on television, as well as glimpses of day-to-day activities by men and women raised to treat their leader as a religious figure.

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