Pulitzer Center Update

Images from Kim Jong Un's North Korea on Pulitzer Center Instagram

October 02, 2017 | General news
By
Jordan Roth
Students at the Pyongyang Orphans’ Secondary School, which is housed in a new brick-and-steel complex. In a class of ten- and eleven-year-olds, one boy asked, “Why is America trying to provoke a war with us?” Image by Max Pinckers/The New Yorker. North Korea, 2017.

Students at the Pyongyang Orphans’ Secondary School, which is housed in a new brick-and-steel complex. In a class of ten- and eleven-year-olds, one boy asked, “Why is America trying to provoke a war with us?” Image by Max Pinckers/The New Yorker. North Korea, 2017.

Three days after Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. is "locked and loaded" in its nuclear standoff with North Korea, photographer Max Pinckers and writer Evan Osnos arrived in Pyongyang to meet the officials responsible for analyzing America. The project, North Korea in the Era of Kim Jong Un, illustrates the 21st century nuclear crisis.

This week, Pinckers' images from North Korea will be featured on the Pulitzer Center Instagram.