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NEWS and REPORTS => World News => Topic started by: HuffingtonPost on Feb 27, 2013, 04:30 AM

Title: Even In North Korea, They're Taking Instagrams Of Food
Post by: HuffingtonPost on Feb 27, 2013, 04:30 AM
The secluded and terrifying nation (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/26/us-korea-north-rights-idUSBRE91P0IP20130226) of North Korea has just joined the food, selfie, and sunset obsessed world of Instagram (http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/02/25/instagram-makes-its-way-into-north-korea-after-mobile-data-services-are-opened/), and so far the photos range from pictures of anti-American art, to photos of corn bread.

This is all the result of changes to North Korean governmental controls (http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-21/business/37229393_1_rodong-sinmun-newspaper-north-korea-pyongyang) over the mobile Internet. At this point, only foreigners in North Korea have access to the Internet via cellular phone. It was just a few weeks ago that North Korea started to allow visitors to bring their own mobile phones (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/north-korea-foreigners-mobile-phones) into the country.

The AP's Jean Lee and David Guttenfelder are a few of the first people living in North Korea to utilize Instagram in North Korea, labeling their photos with hashtags like #NKorea and #Pyongyang.

Be sure to check out Guttenfelder's (http://instagram.com/dguttenfelder) and Lee's Instagram accounts (http://instagram.com/newsjean) for more photos.

(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1010665/thumbs/o-NORTH-KOREA-INSTAGRAM-570.jpg?4)

Lee was pleased to find an American food, corn bread.

(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1010669/thumbs/o-NORTH-KOREA-INSTAGRAM-570.jpg?4)

Guttenfelder took his followers inside a North Korean hospital.

Via: HuffingtonPost