Photos: A look inside North Korea's mass spectacles
North Korea Staged in Pyongyang
In a Monday, April 16, 2012 photo, a young North Korean woman holds back tears during a song dedicated to the leader Kim Jong Un at a mass event to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. The spectacles exist at a North Korean intersection of dogma, tedium and entertainment. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)