Quick: Google the terms “rare glimpse North Korea.”

You will quickly find, if you didn’t know already, that articles claiming to show unique, ground-breaking images from inside the country are not so rare.

The content of those articles, for that matter, is rarely new.

These glimpses, often captured by tourists on restrictive organized trips, claim to show the real North Korea, but rarely provide insight into life in the country that are unknown to the outside world.

But can such pictures nonetheless be instructive? And how might tourists who visit the DPRK best capture a glimpse that, rare or not, is