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Also, you can barely see Kim's country from space at night. Hey, who left the lights on in my palace?!


New Space Station Photos Show North Korea at Night, Cloaked in Darkness

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/140226-north-korea-satellite-photos-darkness-energy

North Korea's isolation is visible in new satellite photos that show the energy-bankrupt country at night.

Since the mid-1990s, when fuel stopped flowing from the defunct Soviet Union to North Korea, the famously hermetic country has descended into darkness.

Newly released photos taken from the International Space Station last month reveal just how energy bankrupt North Korea has become. The photos, and a time-lapse video of the region, show the country as almost completely black, in contrast to the bright lights of neighbors like South Korea and Japan. (See related, "North Korea: Nuclear Ambition, Power Shortage.")

In South Korea, each person consumes 10,162 kilowatt hours of power a year. North Koreans each use just 739. Other than several small spots of light, including the brightly illuminated capital of Pyongyang, the country just about blends in with the surrounding black ocean.