Chinese Tourists in North Korea

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Port Rason, North Korea, August 30, 2011
A visitor posses with a cruise ship at the port of Rason, inside the North Korean special economic zone, northeast of Pyongyang, August 30, 2011. Destitute North Korea's push to breathe new life into its economic relationships with China and Russia appears to be bearing fruit in the far north of the country where foreigners are busily helping to rebuild the region's creaking infrastructure.

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