Photos: A look inside North Korea's mass spectacles
North Korea Staged In Pyongyang
In this Monday, April 16, 2012 photo, students wave the national flags at an evening dancing party and performance at Kim Il Sung square to commemorate late president Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday Pyongyang, North Korea. The spectacles exist at a North Korean intersection of dogma, tedium and entertainment. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)