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| Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil |
| 2009-05-22 |
| Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal In the propaganda blitz that followed North Korea's missile launch last month, the country's state media released photos of leader Kim Jong Il visiting a hydroelectric dam and power station. Images from the report showed two large pipes descending a hillside. That was enough to allow Curtis Melvin, a doctoral candidate at George Mason University in suburban Virginia, to pinpoint the installation on his online map of North Korea. Mr. Melvin is at the center of a dozen or so citizen snoops who have spent the past two years filling in the blanks on the map of one of the world's most secretive countries. Seeking clues in photos, news reports and eyewitness accounts, they affix labels to North Korean structures and landscapes captured by Google Earth, an online service that stitches satellite pictures into a virtual globe. The result is an annotated North Korea of rocket-launch sites, prison camps and elite palaces on white-sand beaches. "It's democratized intelligence," says Mr. Melvin. More than 35,000 people have downloaded Mr. Melvin's file, North Korea Uncovered. . . . Go read the rest. The North Korea Uncovered placemark file for Google Earth may be downloaded here. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 You need an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator Joe. For defensive purposes only, of course. Should work against the PLA just fine. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2009-05-22 23:58 |
| #3 ION WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC CHINA WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE LONG-RANGE ATTACK CAPABILITIES OF ITS H-6 PLAAF BOMBER, ALCMS, AND TYPE 094/094 STRATEGIC SUBMARINES, IN TIME, CHINA WILL EXTEND ITS MIL REACH TO BEYOND THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" TO THREATEN AND STRIKE AT THE US BASE ON GUAM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-05-22 21:48 |
| #2 Think of it as evolution in action, as societies compete for relative reproductive success over the generations. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-05-22 16:49 |
| #1 Probably better than CIA product, since there is no "spin" in it for State or CIA ulterior purposes. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-05-22 13:02 |