Photographer Believes He Is Bringing Peace To North Korea With Propaganda Photos

It looks like the Kim regime’s propaganda department got what they wanted out of approving Aram Pan’s photography project inside North Korea:

This is the true story of North Korea through the eyes of Aram, a Singaporean photographer who has been using existing and the bleeding edge technologies to visually document North Korea.

Aram first applied to the North Korean government for permission to do a photography project in the “Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea” back in 2013.

“I figured the world has more images of the deep ocean depths than we have of North Korea. One day I just decided to try contacting them to see if I could do some kind of photography project in their country.”

He was surprised when his project got approved.

“The impression I originally had was that it would be tough to gain access with so many stories about undercover reporters allege they are risking their lives with hidden cameras.”

The latest addition to Aram’s kit is his modified go-pro hero 4 black that shoots 360 degree video footage.  [Korea Observer]

Here is where Mr. Pan shows he is nothing more than a useful propaganda piece for the Kim regime:

Aram said he wants to exchange culture with North Koreans when practicable and also give interested viewers accurate insight into North Korea and its people.

“There are humans there. People with lives. Every life is precious,” he said.

“With this knowledge, I want the world to restrain their resentment against the country and consider first peaceful and friendly options to engage them. If we can create an environment and atmosphere of love, it will be felt on all sides.”

In a lot of Aram’s work there is vast space and few people.

“North Koreans have the strange habit of wanting places to look clear and clean. That results in them clearing out the locals when I do some of my shoots.”

Aram attempts to capture the everyday nature of the average North Korean.

“In the new north eastern areas, [guides] wonder why I want to photograph farmers at work. ‘They are all dirty. Not make good photos’ the guides will say.

There are also some areas in North Korea where tourists are told they are not allowed to have their cameras out or do not get access to.

Aram said that so far he has not seen evidence of labor camps or persecution.

“We already have some of the most high tech satellites in space that can photograph galaxies light-years away in ultra high resolution. I’m sure if they really wanted to, they could simply snap a few shots of the labor camps and publish them anytime. So I’m just focusing on the humans going about their daily lives.”

First of all Mr. Pan needs to take a lesson in what the size of the aperture for an imagery satellite that can take pictures of North Korean concentration camps where you can make out in detail what is going on.  The Hubble Space Telescope is very different from an imagery satellite.  Secondly the imagery satellites that are available have taken pictures of the suspected camps.  If the Kim regime is so great why doesn’t Mr. Pan put into to do a photo project of these suspected prison camps.  He would be doing the world a far greater service doing a 360 photo shoot of a suspected concentration camp than the selected Kim regime propaganda sites.

So basically what you have here is another naive individual with undoubtedly good intentions being played by the Kim regime propaganda department.  Not only is he allowing himself to be played, but he is even paying the regime an expensive sum of money to do so.