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Maisha ya Watu wa Korea Kaskazini

Photos: What life in North Korea looks like

TUMANGANG, NORTH KOREA - AUGUST 19: A Customs officer is seen on the train No.100 from Moscow to Pyongyang at Tumangang railway station on August 19, 2015 in Tumangang, North Korea. North and South Korea today came to an agreement to ease tensions following an exchange of artillery fire at the demilitarized border last week. (Photo by Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images) less

Across 4 miles of demilitarized zone lies North Korea, a country that is still largely inscrutable to outsiders since the 1940s.

Putting aside the increasingly boisterous and incendiary rhetoric between U.S. President Donald Trump and the DPRK, life in North Korea is comparatively less noisy.

In Pyongyang, only a few people dot the streets and intersections amidst the towering structures. Miles away, villagers eke out a living in the bumpy countryside.

See photos of life in North Korea in the gallery above.

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