Google Earthing North Korea
North Korea is one of the world’s most secretive societies. Curtis Melvin, a PhD student at George Mason University visited the communist nation in 2004 and ’05 and was determined to learn even more about the closed kingdom. So he started a hobby, mapping North Korea with the help of Google Earth.
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