Certainly, most people here have either read, or seen some "illict" video's coming out of North Korea over the years. Stories or Rumors, (Such as the one of the Impoverished Girl, 20 something looking for grass to "eat/sell"...)
Highest per captail income, among Countries in the (Eastern?) World Spending on Their Military...
Being very Isolationist, has the Country itself, despite a Million+ "Peoples Army", Plenty of weaponary, yet HAS no, or NONE or ANY significant Infrastructure in Place.?
Pretty much they are a "collective Agrarian" Socitey, thier future depending on the Weather and/or China's Generosity, or "Extortion" with Weapon(s), Now NUKES, towards the the rest of the World to feed Their Population.(Whom are a full 2" SHORTER to thier South Korean counterparts..)
In addition to being a "Resource Poor" Nation, they are pretty much screwed under the current Regime....

I looked at this Shot from Space today, Placing what I'm fairly sure, the cities name(s), and Status from what i gathered from GoolgeMaps..
Seriosly, it's a Interesting perspective, or a Astronomer's Dream ..
IMOP, It appears that North Korea is living, just on the Edge of the "Industrial Age", circa around the late 1800's in the USA...
Sorry I'm not good with paint, or I would have "overlaid"/Layers etc... So I just wanted to post the pic's, in perspective....
While showing from space, with where I "think" via Tropographgy, and what little is known about the Country itself, (there are NO Lables in GoogleMaps..)Where the Major Cities are with "Lights"...

Cross: Download and install google earth. Plenty of labels.

You can also download KML files people have created for overlays. There's one particularly good one for military assets.

Lordy, I just looked at My post, it's a mess, THANKS Asi for the Tip...
Though I hope people get the General Idea...

Do you have a link, Asimov?

I think this is the one I was thinking of (if you meant north korea?) http://geoiq.grida.no/overlays/3698

Otherwise, look around here: https://www.google.com/search?client=ope....

Thanks for the thread, Crossthread. Here is a bit about the "Hermit Kingdom:"

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...Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.

...Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes. The allegations offer the most shocking glimpse so far of Kim Jong-il's North Korean regime.

...I witnessed a whole family being tested on suffocating gas and dying in the gas chamber,' he said. 'The parents, son and and a daughter. The parents were vomiting and dying, but till the very last moment they tried to save kids by doing mouth-to-mouth breathing.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb....