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A colossal contrast, indeed. The Communist landscape is just about devoid of any light whatsoever. This extends even further north into the territory of the People's Republic of China, which remains a socialist state.

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G. Stolyarov II

Post 1

Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 2:35pm

Excellent posting, Ross. I was recently stationed in the ROK for a little over a year and was amazed that while S. Korea is not yet the giant America has become, it dwarfs its nearest neighbor--and as Korean sentiment goes, brother--in wealth, health, innovation, technology and freedom. S. Koreans do genuinely wish to end the suffering of the North, but rising collectivism and anti-America demagoguery within may hinder the process. Not to mention appeasement towards the PRK from the rest of the world.

Post 2

Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 5:39pm

Just out of interest, the only spot showing any light in the North is the capital city of Pyongyang. That just about says it all: let the bureaucracy live in relative comfort while the serfs shiver to death. Pyongyang is, of course, a show city. It's a sick ruse. It's evil incarnate. Man, would I love to see a couple of carrier battle groups stationed off the NK coast and have an ultimatum issued to the sadists in charge of that hell hole.

http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2002/ja02/ja02anonymous.html

Post 3

Monday, March 8, 2004 - 4:26am

Is this for real?!

Monday, March 8, 2004 - 3:16pm

These satellite images roughly match other satellite images that I've gotten from another source a couple of years ago and put up here. These images do seem to be real when we have now three different satellite images from at least two different sources. Note that the image that I put up wasn't just a picture of Korea, it was a satellite image of the whole earth at night (put together from different pictures at different times in order to get the whole planet) and was online for use as a texture in 3D graphics.

Post 5

Monday, March 8, 2004 - 6:43pm

Gee, Jeff, I didn't know you had that pic on IOP. You beat me to the draw :-)

Post 6

Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 5:35pm

The picture Jeff Landauer is talking about is named "earthlights.jpg" and it can be found on google if you want to see the whole one:

http://images.google.com/images?q=earthlights.jpg

Post 7

Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 6:21pm

If you download a good quality full-sized image of this, there are so many interesting things to see beyond the Korea's. For example, look at the Caribbean and pick out which of the islands is the US territory. (It's easy.) Look at Taiwan vs. China. Look at the strange straight strings of lights in Russia that aren't anywhere else on the planet. Government planning? And overall, the brightness of the US, Western Europe, and Japan compared to the darkness of the rest of the world is a little sad. Time for the rest of them to adopt capitalism and get out of the dark ages!

Post 8

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 - 6:33am

With no slight intended to Ross Elliot�s great photo�that earthlights.jpg brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. As AR said, �It is earlier than you think.�

Post 9

Monday, April 19, 2004 - 2:17am