North Koreans' answer to this simple question offers a terrifying insight into how the government influences their daily lives
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Wong Maye-E/AP Photo
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When interacting with her subjects, Maye-E first takes their photo with a instant camera, and gives them a copy of their picture. This small interaction helps break the ice for her next set of questions: "what's important to you?" and, "what's your life motto?"
Their answers, as Maye-E says, usually worked around the theme of propaganda. "A lot of their answers were based on the theme of protecting their fatherland, protecting their current leader Kim Jung Un, or pleasing him," she said in an interview with AP. Ahead, 14 portraits of North Koreans along with their telling responses to Maye-E's questions.
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