Children skate around the Kim Il Sung Square on Sunday, July 21, 2013, downtown Pyongyang, North Korea. With a U.S. soldier crossing the border into North Korea at the border town of Panmunjom on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, and in custody this week, talk turns to the nation itself — a country that is known for its suspicion of outsiders but also rejects frequent descriptions of it as reclusive. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
