Nighttime imagery of the Earth’s surface has been a staple for science geeks and geopolitical analysts for years, revealing details about a region’s population, growth and industry in dramatic ways.
A recent image from the International Space Station (ISS) shows in stark detail the utter lack of development in North Korea — widely considered to be an isolated “rogue” state — compared with next-door neighbor South Korea, a rapidly developing industrial power.
“North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China,” according to the NASA Earth Observatory. In fact, the entire country appears so dark that it seems “as if it were a patch of water” instead of a nation of more than 24 million people.
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