Instagram shows North Korea from the inside North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Picture: AP Source: AFP Photography was banned, bus windows were blacked out, tourists could only visit with an authorised guide and personal technology was confiscated. Until this year, the mysterious land of North Korea had been hidden from the online public. The communist nation existed without a local mobile network or internet access. Then in February, foreigners were given access to the internet on their mobile phones using service provider Koryolink. With this new connection to the Western world, AP photographer David Guttenfelder took on the task of creating a digital footprint for North Korea. He Instagrammed his way across the country, giving outsiders a glimpse into the everyday life of the local folk. Or at least the life the government intends for you to see. "I feel I can help open a window into a place that would otherwise rarely be seen by outsiders," Guttenfelder said. As one of the few international photographers who has ever had regular access to the country, I feel a huge responsibility to share what I see and to show it as accurately as I can. This is North Korea from the inside. #Pyongyang. That little white glow in the center of the otherwise dark city, are the illuminated portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. David Guttenfelder: A waitress sets hotel banquet hall table in #Pyongyang. We're headed back into DPRK this weekend. Until then, #latergram #cleanoffmyphone David Guttenfelder: A world map hangs in an office in #Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder: Luxury, but dated, cars in the streets of #Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder: Central #Pyongyang David Guttenfelder: When the seasons change in #Pyongyang, the uniforms of the traffic police women change. David Guttenfelder: North Korean soldiers. Two on the bike, one in the sidecar. David Guttenfelder: Inside the Masudae Assembly Hall in #Pyongyang, two women wait to lead us down a red carpet to meet Kim Yong Nam, the head of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea. David Guttenfelder: North Korean state media in action. #Pyongyang David Guttenfelder: Downtown #Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder: Soaking up the sun. #Pyongyang David Guttenfelder: The view of #Pyongyang from my hotel room is always the same in the morning. Only the light wil change and make me take my cameras to the window. David Guttenfelder: North Korea interiors #101. The Koryo Hotel lobby. David Guttenfelder: North Korean Artifact #150. The Rodong Sinmun newspaper Sept. David Guttenfelder: North Korean Artifact #149. Blueberry ginseng wine. David Guttenfelder: Young North Korean men nap during a flight from #Pyongyang to Beijing. I'm outta there for a few days. But l'll keep posting pics and be back in North Korea on Oct. 1st. David Guttenfelder: The charm of Air Koryo, North Korea's airline. On board flight JS221 to Beijing. David Guttenfelder: North Korean men on an airport transport bus headed to the Air Koryo flight for Beijing. David Guttenfelder: North Koreans wear 3D glasses inside 3D theater/amusement park ride at the Rungna People's Pleasure park in #Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder: North Korean men work to fix a public trolly bus in #Pyongyang. On the street is a grid of painted white dots used to mark the marching steps during mass parades on Kim Il Sung Square. David Guttenfelder: A cartoon showing a military tank offensive plays on a TV inside a daycare center in #Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder: A North Korean man drinks beer in his swimsuit and cap at an indoor poolside bar that officials said was built as a recreational facility for workers at a food processing factory in #Pyongyang. David Guttenfelder: I was taken on a tour of a #Pyongyang factory where these men sat working beneath a control board. Much of my job inside North Korea, as I see it, is to navigate between the real and the contrived. Please check out the story in National Geographic magazine, "The Truth Is Rarely Simple" where my DPRK images are part if their 125th anniversary edition celebrating the power of photography. More Instagrams: First look inside North Korea