I wonder if other folks saw what I thought was a startling image on a cable news channel last weekend.
I can't recall the program but the TV screen was filled with a night-time satellite view of the entire Korean Peninsula.
One could see a very bright display of city lights emanating out in all directions from Seoul...but...immediately across the border North Korea was almost totally dark.
I couldn't even detect a glimmer around Pyongyang with a population, I believe, of over a million.
South Korea is bright, North Korea is dark. This amazing image is included in the standard US Department of Defense briefings on North Korea. It was mentioned in a news briefing on 23 December 2002 by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who stated that "If you look at a picture from the sky of the Korean Peninsula at night, South Korea is filled with lights and energy and vitality and a booming economy; North Korea is dark."
