North Korea's big bash honoring founder Kim Il Sung visible from space

NY Daily News ^ | 04/26/12

[TigerLikesRooster]

North Korea's big bash honoring founder Kim Il Sung visible from space

Satelitte images pick up the word 'glory' in Korean

In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography.

The country is famous for organizing crowds of thousands of people using colored cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different.

This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the capital of Pyongyang was big enough to be visible from space.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Gay State Conservative]

Is the fact that there's not a single dog alive in the country also visible from space? How about the fact that there's not a tree in the country that hasn't been stripped of its bark.

[Frank_2001]

Does that Commie slogan sound like “Ho Pin Chang”?/s;)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Entire line of troops participating in the parade (from the top left to the bottom right)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Actually, it is “Glory to the One.” :-)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Actually, it is “Glory to the One.” :-)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL - good one. Took me a moment...

[Tainan]

When ya got their bellies, their bodies will follow ya.

[ItsForTheChildren]

Korea from space at night.

[21twelve]

Thanks for the image. I suppose the climate might still be late winter - but there sure seems to be a lot of open, barren, dead areas there. Seems odd to have so much open space between the nice buildings that are seemingly unkempt.

[TXnMA]

"the spelled out message in a central square in the capital of Pyongyang was big enough to be visible from space."

BFD! Hyperbolic reporting.

Some of the recent Google Earth images of my area clearly show the wires on power lines crossing a lake, individuals in a group of tourists, and the individual rails and ties on a narrow-gauge "tourist" railroad. And the latest shot of my own place shows the spark plug wires I had laid out on the hood of the '65 "Formula 'S'" Barracuda I'm restoring. What else would you expect from a set of -- essentially -- Hubble Telescopes, pointed at Earth?

[SkyDancer]

Wow! Look at all the energy NK is saving. They must be one green country.

[21twelve]

And bring in your trash cans - it’s almost Friday for crying out loud!

[300winmag]

That one light in North Korea must illuminate the path to Glorious Leader's heavenly outhouse. That's the reality you can see from space without even using binoculars.

[17th Miss Regt]

Actually, it is “Glory to the One.”

Are you sure? My dictionary translates it as "Do not remove tag under penalty of law."

[terycarl]

don’t they realize that if their picture can be taken like this, that they are targets...print a huge target on wherever you want and we, or many others could hit it...

[Tupelo]

What bothers me about this celebration is, I think WE probably paid for it.

With money borrowed from China.

[Carry_Okie]

Just like all things collectivist: It looks better if you get farther away from it. The more you see of it, the uglier it gets.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Translation:

SEND FOOD