Below is a repost of one of The Daily North Korea's articles. It shows images probably taken from the South Korean ship that carried a large load of fertilizer to the North recently.

If you go over to You Tube, and watch the well-known documentaries that have come out about NK since 2000 - including: Inside North Korea, Undercover in the Secret State, Children of the Secret State, Welcome to North Korea, Access to Evil, Seoul Train, then the "neutral" looks at NK - A State of Mind and A Day in the Life ------ you will see how North Korea is beyond extremely paranoid about images like this.

It would not allow multinational aid organizations travel around the nation judging the needs and providing food and medical support during the Great Famine in the 1990s - because it did not want to expose its poverty to the world.

There is funamental state security involved here - far beyond state pride.

NK believes it must absolutely continue the fiction of the worker's paradise in order to prevent the citizens from rising up and slaughtering the elite.

That is why they go beyond 1984-type control of info coming in - no cell phones, no foreign videos, no foreign radio broadcasts, and son.

They put whole families in concentration camps if they bad mouth the regime. They demand bizzare acts of praise of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung like you can see in the recent Inside North Korea.

But, it also means, trying to limit the truth of how such a "hermit kingdom" paranoia has broken North Korean society down and painted it into a corner from which it can NEVER escape under the current regime.

That is why using a video camera is "the most serious form of treason in North Korea."

North Korea’s Human Wave Tactic

▲ Similar to the Chinese Human Wave Attack during the Korean War, laborers aboard ship unload fertilizer stamped with the Red Cross’ logo.
On May 11th, fertilizer from South Korea arrived at Shinuiju Port in North Korea. In response to the May 5th order, “Spring Farm Supporting Activity”, people transport fertilizer from the South Korean Red Cross, whose logos appear on the sacks.

South Korea has sent 300 thousand tons of fertilizer through Nampo Port to North Korea since late March.

It is interesting to see laborers still unloading by hand instead of using machinery. When a large volume of aid comes to North Korea, the authorities use forced labor to do the heavy lifting.

▲ A female middle manager watches the laborers unload fertilizer.
It is not known if the laborers are paid. If they are lucky they will receive a sack of fertilizer.

These photos capture the conditions in which North Korean labor exists.

▲ A sign praises Kim Jong Il: “The Sun of 21st Century, Long Live General Kim Jong Il!”
▲ As soon as the ship arrived at the port, laborers boarded.
▲ Each laborer carries two sacks of fertilizer on his shoulders.
▲ Smoking break.
▲ They don’t seem too unhappy.
▲ Fertilizer on a truck to be transported to the rural areas.
▲ A beret and Kim Il Sung badge identify this man as a labor boss.
▲ Small stalls appear at the docks on the days when foreign aid goods arrive. They sell cigarettes, beverage, Soju (liquor), water and other sundries.