North Korea

I've been curious about North Korea recently.  So, I went over to Google Earth and started scoping around.

Here's a picture I found I particularly like:

They're painting the end rows!  A neat trick if you want the town to look alright on a budget.

Some other pictures:

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Probably hay fields I'm guessing.  Although the pock-marked holes looked odd at first, until I reasoned that they were probably shadows.

 

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Probably a coal mine.  Although you can see it from space.  It is pretty friggin' large.

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I'm guessing this is just tilled land, and they left the land farther out untilled or just didn't get to it yet maybe?

 

Another funny thing is how all of the fields suddenly get green and start looking a lot better the closer you get to the border.