Why does Singaporean photographer Aram Pan – best known for his increasingly prolific DPRK 360 project – spend so much personal time and money going to North Korea?

“Simply to do whatever I can to help North Korea integrate into a worldwide community,” Pan tells NK News, just a day after returning from his 12th visit to the country.

And Pan says his government-approved photography project – combined with efforts to improve tourist access of the country and trips which bring “common people” out of it – can both help outsiders get a “better understanding of them, and help them