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Related: About this forumNasa shows how dark N. Korea really is
That vast swath of darkness at the center of the above image, looking like a speckled, oddly shaped body of water thats the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, photographed from the International Space Station on January 30th. NASA has some relevant landmarks labeled for context.
Its a striking reminder of how literally and figuratively dark the country is: Pyongyang, North Korea, a city of 3.26 million, looks about the same size as Gunsan, South Korea, population 280,000. The rest of the DPRK might as well be an extension of the Yellow Sea.
http://www.animalnewyork.com/2014/nasa-shows-dark-north-korea-really/
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Nasa shows how dark N. Korea really is (Original Post)
n2doc
Feb 2014
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. oh my
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)2. Wow! NK is not going to like this.
They don't seem to care about most kinds of negative publicity, but this exposes what their economic and military capabilities really must be-nearly nothing.
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)3. This has political implications... cross post it to GD. n/t
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)4. On the up side, it's now
an excellent place for astronomers. Or average citizens who just want to star gaze.
Get out of my head!
ffr
(22,670 posts)6. That makes them 'greener' than the rest of us too
Wish we'd stop powering all these lights across the country. We're asleep for most of the time these are on and it pumps more burned fossil fuels into the atmosphere.