This is what a great day looks like in North Korea.

Rare photos show wealthy North Koreans enjoying Pyongyang Central Zoo and Circus, which features basketball-playing monkeys, a poetry-reciting parrot and a monkey that can balance on a baby goat, reports Next Shark.

Jonas Wahlstrom, a Swedish zookeeper, has been an adviser to the zoo for the past 30 years and makes sure the animals are taken care of.

“I’m trying hard to teach [the zoo] the importance of enrichment,” Wahlstrom tells Barcroft. “I try to get them to bring in trees for the chimpanzees exhibits. It’s a bit slow, but finally they’ve listened to what I’m trying to say.

“Being in the Far East, the zoo is good,” Wahlstrom says. “Like, [there are] some old cages where they’re keeping big cats. But, overall, the exhibits, [the] trainers — they’ve really turned it around.”

At one point the zoo even had a chimpanzee that smoked cigarettes, but Wahlstrom persuaded staffers to knock it off.

“Luckily they’ve stopped it, now, at least they’ve told me they have,” he said.

Meanwhile the photographer, who goes by Exithamster, was surprised by how packed the circus’ shows were.

He told Barcroft, “The best seats in the midsection were occupied by foreigners. The rest was 80 percent military. Almost all seats were taken.”