Photos of Pyongyang are certainly no longer rare, with hundreds of shots taken by tourists emerging on photo-sharing websites every year.

But while such pictures are well known for spawning countless gallery-driven albums on newspaper websites, the commentaries provided on them often comes from tourists who think their work shows a “glimpse” into real life in North Korea.

The London-based photographer Michael Huniewicz, for example, nearly “risked detention” for publishing a series of well-taken but otherwise unremarkable shots of the typical sites on the North Korean tourist route.

What, though, do former citizens of Pyongyang think when they see photos