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Asia

Images of spectacular mass games captured in secretive North Korea

Despite being in a secretive state, British photographer Jeremy Hunter captured images of North Korea's spectacular Arirang mass games

Performers use flip charts to create images for the Arirang. Photo: Jeremy Hunter

In a gigantic stadium, an audience of 150,000 enjoys a 120-minute spectacle, with tickets costing as much as €300 (HK$3,000). The show itself, boiled down from 250-million man hours of gymnastic effort, features spectacular scenes of seamlessly choreographed human mosaics followed by a grand fireworks display as the finale.

It might sound more like the opening of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 than the efforts of an impoverished hermit kingdom that is again in the headlines for sabre-rattling and threatening the security of the East Asia region.