Tensions between North Korea and other world powers have come to light again after Pyongyang claimed to have carried out it's first nuclear-arms test earlier this week. While the small blast indicates that the test may not have been successful, world leaders are threatening sanctions and are urging the UN to take action.
Previously, strong rhetoric and missile-tests by the isolated nation have caused similar reactions.
Over the past 20 years Magnum photographers have visited the hardline communist state and this album contains some of the images they were allowed to take while under close...