North Korea - "Friendship forever"?

Having quarreled with the West, Russia turned to the east sharply , where, convinced in the Kremlin, and “friendship forever”, and a promising market for sales of energy resources. The gas “contract of the century” with China has already been signed, but there is not enough Celestial Empire alone: ​​one of the branches of the future gas pipeline should go to the south of the Korean Peninsula - through the north, that is, through the territory of the DPRK. During their last meeting in August 2011, the deceased Kim Jong Ir gave a fundamental consent to such transit to Vladimir Putin. But now in power in the DPRK his son, a young man with a quick -tempered changeable character. Does Russia understand well what kind of state our power is ready to write down in “strategic partners”? Strokes to the portrait of North Korea - in this issue The New Times

The French photographer Eric Lafors went to North Korea 6 times, each time with smuggling, taking the pictures that asked him to be removed. In the photo: watch at the memorial complex "Kimsusan" in Pyongyang