[AmericanInTokyo]

Also adding to the fact that the photo in #8 was apparantly taken at 8:16 p.m. local time in April, one does wonder why there is not even a speck of lighting in North Korea, when the other photos clearly show the lights of not only Pyongyang, but of the port cities of Wonsan and Chongjin as well.

Something still ain't right about that first photo, IMHO.

Why is the lighting also missing from Dadong, Shenyang and Dalian in China north of DPRK, which themselves are no shabby villages but rather streaming w/ light at night?

[Travis McGee]

One possible explanation for the two NK light conditions (dim and none) would be that the regime is on strict "power hours."

IOW, at 8:59 PM, there is light. Then at the sroke of nine PM, at 20 power stations, 20 master switches are thrown (who will argue with an order in NK?) and the country goes dark virtually all at once (except for Dear Leader's palaces etc with their own generators and fuel supplies).

This would be very cool to watch on streaming satellite video, if there is such a thing.