1. Female traffic police officer in the snow in February 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by Andrew Macleod/Barcroft Media)

2. A woman stands in a gift shop in central Rason city, part of the special economic zone northeast of Pyongyang, in this August 30, 2011 file photo. North Korea is a militarized,
male-dominated society, but it is women who are making the money as the insular nation allows an unofficial market-based economy to take shape. (Photo by Carlos
Barria/Reuters)

3. A woman works in the Kim Jong-suk
Pyongyang Silk Mill in Pyongyang April 9,
2012. The factory is named after the
wife of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung.
(Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)

4. Workers of the Mangyongbyong cruise ship stand on the deck, near Mount Kumgang resort September 1, 2011. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)

5. A North Korean employee works in a bank at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles inside North Korea from the heavily fortified border December
19, 2013. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

6. North Korean employees work in a factory of a South Korean company at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles inside North Korea from the heavily
fortified border December 19, 2013. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

7. Members of a music group check a drum on a path amid fields as they pack up their instruments after giving a performance to greet the farmers at Hwanggumpyong Island,
near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong June 6, 2012. (Photo by Jacky Chen/Reuters)

8. North Korean workers pack
vitamin-and mineral-enriched
biscuits at a factory in Sinuiju city.
Photograph: Gerald Bourke/AP

9. An employee enters a room at a hotel in Mount Kumgang resort in Kumgang September 1, 2011. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)

10. North Korea - Women workers

11. A North Korean airline attendant is seen on an Air Koryo aircraft flying towards Pyongyang from Beijing, July 24, 2013. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)

12. A North Korean woman works at the Kim Jong-
suk factory in Pyongyang, the country’s largest
textile factory with 8,500 workers. At least 80%
of them are women. Photograph: Wong Maye-
E/AP

13. A North Korean woman stretches
out a string of yarn at the Kim
Jong-Suk textile factory.
Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

14. A 2013 calendar, showing a picture of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket, hangs inside a hair salon in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, February 20, 2013. (Photo by David
Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

15. North Korean women stand by a simple meal of maize prepared for orphans in the area damaged by recent floods and typhoons in the North Hwanghae province September
29, 2011. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

16. North Korea workers making their way along a path after finishing work in the North Korean border town of Siniuju, across from China's northeastern city of
Dandong. AFP/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

17. Workers operate a production line at a factory making fruit juice near the Daedonggang Fruit Farm, with 125 hectares of apple trees, on the outskirts of Pyongyang April 10,
2012. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)

18. North Korean shop assistants walk on a street in Pyongyang July 29, 2013. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)

19. North Korean nurses give
vitamin A supplements
and deworming pills to
children at an elite
nursery school in
Pyongyang.
Photograph: David
Guttenfelder/AP

20. A woman works on a library computer at the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is undergoing a digital revolution of sorts, even as it holds
some of the strictest cyberspace policies in the world. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

21. A North Korean employee works in a factory of a South Korean company at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone, a few miles inside North Korea from the
heavily fortified border in this December 19, 2013 file photo. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

22. A local guide. (The photographer is unknown – a Chinese tourist)

23. Female workers takes a break on a fishing boat at the port of Rajin, in North Korean Special Economic Zone of Rason City, northeast of Pyongyang September 2, 2011. (Photo
by Carlos Barria/Reuters)

24. A North Korean woman (L) adjusts the position of seats for top leaders and guests ahead of an artistic performance to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of a
truce in the 1950-1953 Korean War in Pyongyang July 28, 2013. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)

25. North Korean women who work at the Kim
Jong-suk textile factory spend some free time in
a sauna at their dormitory in Pyongyang.
Images of workers relaxing are rare.
Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

27. North Korean workers make shoes at a factory of a South Korean shoes company in the Kaesong Industrial Complex. (Lee Jin-man/courtesy Reuters)

28. A North Korean soldier stands guard along the bank of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 1, 2014. (Photo by
Jacky Chen/Reuters)

29. Inside the Hermit Kingdom
A metro train enters a Pyongyang subway station. Photographer van Houtryve

30. A North Korean traffic policewoman stands on a road in Pyongyang August 27, 2007. (Photo by Reinhard Krause/Reuters)

31. A North Korean dancer gathers before performing at a gala show to mark the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on
Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. AP / Vincent Yu

33. A woman smiles as she works at Daedonggang Fruit Farm, with 125 hectares of apple trees, on the outskirts of Pyongyang April 10, 2012. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)

34. North Korean workers at a factory of a South Korean apparel maker in the inter-Korean industrial park in Kaesong, just a few hundred metres north of the heavily fortified
Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean peninsula. Source:AFP

35. A vendor stands inside a shop at the North Korean Special Economic Zone of Rason City in Rajin, northeast of Pyongyang August 29, 2011. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)

36. The caption states: "Korean
women labor on both sides of
the Demarcation Line at jobs
that range from apple picking
to abalone diving. Field
workers (above) pack apples
on a North Korean farm co-
op."

37. A North Korean worker sews inside a temporary soccer shoe factory at a rural village on the edge of Dandong October 24, 2012. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)

38. North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on
Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. AP / Vincent Yu

39. Employees of North Korea's greenhouse vegetable research institute harvesting cucumbers in Pyongyang [EPA]

40. A North Korean station master waits for a train at a metro station in Pyongyang August 27, 2007. (Photo by Reinhard Krause/Reuters)

42. Female soldiers on the border

43. North Korean factory workers attend a ceremony marking the completion of a garlic processing factory that a South Korean company invested in, in Kaesong, North Korea,
northwest of Seoul, February 6, 2007. (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)