This shop is only open for the locals, qualifying this photo once again, as illegal. The store seems to look stuffed with goods but actually, if you put them like how stores place goods together on shelves in the West, this place would be half-empty. North Korea is actually desperate for food aid and other forms of economic assistance amidst the showmanship and threats of a nuclear war, US News reported.

In the photo, a tourist puts on a costume for a photo op with the statuette of a horse. Everything in North Korea must have an embedded political message; even its entertainment forms are state-sponsored, Korea Joongang Daily described. As the world already knows, North Korea is the stage and all its people are actors. Festivities are dedicated to their late leaders, people are directed as to what to say, how to stand, and even how to sit.