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North Korea Is Dark
by Elonka at 6:37 pm EST, Mar 26, 2003 |
] This amazing image is included in the standard US
] Department of Defense briefings on North Korea. It was
] mentioned in a news briefing on 23 December 2002 by
] Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who stated that "If you look
] at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at
] night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and
] vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark." I've been looking for a good link to meme this image for awhile. It's a satellite view of the night-time landscape in eastern Asia, including Japan on the right, and the Chinese coast on the left. In the middle is the Korean peninsula. What's remarkable is to see how lit up the southern part of the peninsula is, and how completely dark that the North Korea part of the peninsula is. It's a dramatic indicator of the differing economic and technological levels between North and South. |
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RE: North Korea Is Dark
by bucy at 10:59 am EST, Mar 27, 2003 |
Elonka wrote:
] ] This amazing image is included in the standard US
] ] Department of Defense briefings on North Korea. It was
] ] mentioned in a news briefing on 23 December 2002 by
] ] Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who stated that "If you look
] ] at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at
] ] night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and
] ] vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark."
]
] I've been looking for a good link to meme this image for
] awhile. It's a satellite view of the night-time landscape in
] eastern Asia, including Japan on the right, and the Chinese
] coast on the left. In the middle is the Korean peninsula.
] What's remarkable is to see how lit up the southern part of
] the peninsula is, and how completely dark that the North Korea
] part of the peninsula is. It's a dramatic indicator of the
] differing economic and technological levels between North and
] South. There was a story on All Things Considered a few months ago about
a railway they're building from south to north and into Russia. This
of course entailed a major mine-clearing operation in the DMZ. The
South Koreans had fancy mine detecting trucks. The DPRK soldiers had
metal rods that they gingerly stuck in the ground to feel out the mines. |
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North Korea Is Dark
by Decius at 11:03 am EST, Mar 27, 2003 |
] This amazing image is included in the standard US
] Department of Defense briefings on North Korea. It was
] mentioned in a news briefing on 23 December 2002 by
] Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who stated that "If you look
] at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at
] night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and
] vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark." |
North Korea at night
by Acidus at 9:21 am EST, Mar 22, 2004 |
In Rumsfeld's article in the NYTs this last week, he talked about a picture of North and South Korea at night, where NK was near-totally dark. Take a look at progress Comrades! Extra Here are some awesome light only pictures of the earth. Now I have a new desktop http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5826 |
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