Korean Pennisula at night in jan 6 1986

Brighter than today but still dark

Interesting, never saw that one before.
Even China is more illuminated. Note how Pyongyang's the only major light spot. All in all ROK is much better.

Do you really think there is cities in the sea?

OP-Bagration wrote:

Do you really think there is cities in the sea?

These are fishing boats. You could see this even in todays pictures.

What a joke. How could fishing boats make more light than a whole city? You would need thousands of this.

Let's be serious. I searched for more stuff like this on the internet, and I found this picture :




OMG! OMG! All North Koreans are dead!

Now, look on the right at the bottom. What you can see is Japan. This is totally dark. And on this part of Japan, you have some big towns like Hiroshima or Shimonoseki. However, it's dark. Totally dark.

The off-shore lights don't make any sense. I like OP's version where even Pyongyang is reduced to like one streetlight. :lol:

Yes the last one must be a fake. The first one is a true one, but there must be some clouds reflecting moonlight or something like that. It seems there is very few public lightning in the towns, it doesn't mean that there is no electricity or economic life in North Korea.

[quote="OP-Bagration"]What a joke. How could fishing boats make more light than a whole city? You would need thousands of this. [quote]
Its possible because the Sea Of Japan(East Sea(동해) in Korean)is famous for squids.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWxS6axKwAs
Korean East Sea at night

I can't explain the 2003 one but the 1986 is not fake at all.
I have a 1987 satelite picture of East and Western Europe taken by the same company but both parts are very bright(Romania is pretty dark but most of the major cities have bright spots) and Moscow is the biggest spot.

Dagoth Ur wrote:

The off-shore lights don't make any sense. I like OP's version where even Pyongyang is reduced to like one streetlight.

If you see the pictures of Pyongyang before 2006,most of the picture looks really dark.
But pictures in 2006 and after looks brighter but still much darker than the world cities with similar population.
In pyongyang,most of the streetlights are off except places like Kim Il Sung Square and Major streets like Changwang Street
(But in holidays like kims birthday,birthday of north korea(공화국 창건절),birthday of the party(당 창건절)
This is the situation in 2010~2011 and I don't know the current situation. and outside Pyongyang almost all of the lights are
off except the kim il sung statues and the propaganda structures.

moonjosh wrote:

I can't explain the 2003 one but the 1986 is not fake at all.
I have a 1987 satelite picture of East and Western Europe taken by the same company but both parts are very bright(Romania is pretty dark but most of the major cities have bright spots) and Moscow is the biggest spot.

That fits reality. Eastern Bloc countries never had any electricity problems, except for Romania. There were huge hydroelectric and nuclear plants in Czechoslovakia (and still are in the 2 sucessor states).