Revealed on Google Earth: North Korea’s Secret Free Market
edition.cnn.com — A grassroots group of North Korean observers has watched the growth of village markets via satellite photos courtesy of Google Earth. With Google Earth, you can scroll back through time from the most recent satellite photographs and see how these markets are growing. (Submitted by inactive) More...
North Korea: The Land of No Smiles
foreignpolicy.com — Renowned documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he these amazing photographs of Pyongyang and its people. (Submitted by mattswain123) More...
North Korea now tweeting on Twitter
technology.canoe.ca — A feed under the name "kcna-dprk" provides links to hundreds of North Korea's official news agency's English-language stories. The background of the Twitter page for the feed at http://twitter.com/kcna_dprk shows the North's red-and-blue national flag. (Submitted by WordsnCollision) More...
North Korea begins extracting plutonium
reuters.com — North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month. (Submitted by hantata) More...
North Korea Revalues Money, Causing Black Market Chaos
news.yahoo.com — North Korea revalued its national currency for the first time in decades in a bid to fight inflation and flush out the black market money trade, reports said Tuesday — a move that sent residents of the communist state scrambling to convert hoarded money into foreign currencies. (Submitted by NewsFeed) More...
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