The Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket is pictured on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang.
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North Korean technicians man computer terminals at North Korea’s space agency’s General Launch Command Center on the outskirts of Pyongyang. Engineers are pumping fuel into a rocket that is set to carry a satellite into space.
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University students swim inside a swimming pool complex of Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang.
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University students slide into a swimming pool at Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang.
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University students look down from the platform of a slide inside a swimming pool complex of Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang.
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Girls train in a Taekwondo Hall in Pyongyang. Students trained here are selected from different provinces, with some presenting North Korea to compete in international taekwondo competitions. The banner at background reads “Let us defend the Party Central Committee headed by the respected comrade Kim Jong-un, at the cost of our lives!”
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Soldiers walk into a subway in front of a column of North Korean flags in Pyongyang.
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North Koreans play billiards in Pyongyang.
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A car drives past residential buildings in Pyongyang.
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North Koreans workers carry a couple of benches in Pyongyang. North Korea’s five-day window to launch a rocket opened on April 12 with Asian countries on alert, as Washington told G8 world powers that the communist state was in flagrant violation of a UN ban.
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Workers decorate a street with flowers in front of Potongmun, the western gate of the inner complex of the walled city of Pyongyang in preparation for the centenary of the birth of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung on Sunday.
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North Korean workers repair a street in Pyongyang.
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North Korean soldiers march in Pyongyang.
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North Koreans walk along the pavement in Pyongyang.
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Smoke rises from a plant at dawn in downtown Pyongyang.
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North Korean men work at a river bank in Pyongyang.
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Women work in the Kim Jong-suk Pyongyang Silk Mill . The factory is named after the wife of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung.
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A worker operates a production line at a factory making fruit juice near the Daedonggang Fruit Farm on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
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A woman works in the Kim Jong-suk Pyongyang Silk Mill.
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A North Korean woman cleans slaughtered ducks on a processing line at the Dudan duck factory which employs 1000 workers and produces 7000 tons of duck products a year in Pyongyang.
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Workers rest while planting trees on a street in Pyongyang.
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North Korean women attend a grand chorus event held to mark North Korean founder Kim Il-Sung’s 100th birth anniversary, which falls on April 15.
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Thousands of residents applaud at a square during the inauguration of a mosaic portrait of Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang. The banner reads, “Let us complete the revolutionary cause under the leadership of the respected comrade Kim Jung-un!”
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A Mercedes-Benz car is parked outside the People’s Cultural Palace where the World Congress in Pyongyang.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) waves during the Fourth Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang.
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