David Guttenfelder / AP People watch a dolphin show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.

David Guttenfelder / AP A dolphin leaps from a tank during a show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.

David Guttenfelder / AP A woman rides a roller coaster at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Aug. 8.

David Guttenfelder / AP A guest room is bathed in red light shining through a curtain at a hotel for foreign tourists in Kaesong, North Korea on Sept. 11.

David Guttenfelder / AP A traffic police officer stands in a marked area in the middle of the principle intersection in Kaesong, North Korea on Sept. 11.

David Guttenfelder / AP A truck, retrofitted to run on a barrel of burning wood, stops on a road in Hamhung, North Korea on Aug. 11.

David Guttenfelder / AP A man holds a woman's bag and parasol as they play miniature golf at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.

David Guttenfelder / AP Two people dance at Majon beach near Hamhung, North Korea on Aug. 11.

Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder captures the secretive life of North Korea again with a series of images shot this August and September.

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