Two female soldiers have their picture taken by a colleague at Mangyongdae; the birthplace of Kim Ill Sung. THESE are the pictures North Korea didn???t want you to see after one photojournalist smuggled them out of the country and was banned from ever returning. The revealing photographs show North Koreans going about their everyday lives in April 2014 but all is not as it seems. One image shows a woman sitting outside a store front but there was only an empty building inside. Other shots show people waiting at bus stops, reading train timetables and taking a stroll through a public park. The pictures were taken in Pyongyang, North Korea by freelance photojournalist Gavin John (31) from Calgary, Canada.