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Satellite image of North Korea in December 2002. 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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] All residences are kept secret by the ...
"North Korea's Largest Concentration Camps on Google Earth". One Free Korea. July 2017. – Satellite imagery and witness accounts of North Korean camps "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag". – Book review of Kang Chol-hwan's account from Yodok " 'Life of hard labour' in North Korean camp". BBC News. May 3, 2011.
North Korea, [ c] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ), [ d] is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
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 ...
North Korea has an adequate telephone system, with 1.18 million fixed lines available in 2008. [ 2] However, most phones are only installed for senior government officials. Someone wanting a phone installed must fill out a form indicating their rank, why they want a phone, and how they will pay for it. [ 3]