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This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [ 1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such ...
North Korea Uncovered is a comprehensive set of mappings of North Korea.It includes in-depth coverage of thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labor camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, and main roads of the country, and even includes the entrance to the country's subterranean nuclear test base, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.
Captured by NASA with the Aqua satellite. Satellite imagery in North Korea is a knowledge-building tool in the field of North Korean studies. It enables researchers to produce data-based analyses in the agricultural, humanitarian, economic and military fields, in a country where access to the field is limited.
Residences of North Korean leaders. There are more than a dozen leader's residences in North Korea, according to Kim Jong Il ’s former bodyguard Lee Young-kuk. [ 1] Many of the residences were identified on satellite images [ 2] in the North Korea Uncovered project. [ 3] Ryongsong Residence is the central residence of Kim Jong Un. [ 4]
The recent heavy rains in northwestern North Korea flooded thousands of houses and a vast extent of farmland and left many residents homeless and living in makeshift tents, North Korea’s state ...
Hancha. 龍 城 官 邸. Revised Romanization. Yongseong Gwanjeo. McCune–Reischauer. Ryongsŏng Kwanjŏ. Ryongsong Residence[ 1] ( Korean: 룡성 관저 ), also called Residence No. 55 ( 55호 관저 ), [ 2] is the main official residence of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un and first lady Ri Sol Ju. [ 3]
Some 80 percent of North Korea's land area is composed of mountains and uplands, with all of the peninsula's mountains with elevations of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) or more located in North Korea. The great majority of the population lives in the plains and lowlands. Paektu Mountain, the highest point in North Korea at 2,743 metres (8,999 ft), is ...
McCune–Reischauer. Hanbando Pimujang chidae. The Korean Demilitarized Zone ( Korean : 한반도 비무장 지대) is a heavily militarized strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the peninsula roughly in half.