Ever since A Secondhand Conjecture turned me on to Strange Maps, I have been plumbing their archives, and have found some incredible stuff. (Hube, you've really got to go there and take a look, man.)
Below is a night satellite shot of North and South Korea. The South, of course, is home to a despicable capitalist engine producing Hyundai automobiles and all sorts of other things that give rise to a country with severe income disparities and lots of social turbulence.
North Korea is one of the few remaining true Stalinist paradises on Earth (even the Chinese have been corrupted), where men are men (but have bad hair cuts), the peasants are self-reliant (and eat the bark off the trees), and the women are nearly 11 centimeters shorter (that's a little over four inches for those of you holding out for the English system) than their counterparts in the capitalist South. (Be sure not just to look at the map, but visit the original post at Strange Maps and read the whole article.)
By the way, the big blob in northwest South Korea is Seoul (23 million budding entrepreneurs); the only dot in North Korea is Pyongyang, with a population of 3 million. I remember Dan Rather commenting about ten years ago that when he went to Pyongyang to cover the nuclear issue, his tour guide told him that he must be a bigwig because his hotel suite had a light bulb in every room.
Below is a night satellite shot of North and South Korea. The South, of course, is home to a despicable capitalist engine producing Hyundai automobiles and all sorts of other things that give rise to a country with severe income disparities and lots of social turbulence.
North Korea is one of the few remaining true Stalinist paradises on Earth (even the Chinese have been corrupted), where men are men (but have bad hair cuts), the peasants are self-reliant (and eat the bark off the trees), and the women are nearly 11 centimeters shorter (that's a little over four inches for those of you holding out for the English system) than their counterparts in the capitalist South. (Be sure not just to look at the map, but visit the original post at Strange Maps and read the whole article.)
By the way, the big blob in northwest South Korea is Seoul (23 million budding entrepreneurs); the only dot in North Korea is Pyongyang, with a population of 3 million. I remember Dan Rather commenting about ten years ago that when he went to Pyongyang to cover the nuclear issue, his tour guide told him that he must be a bigwig because his hotel suite had a light bulb in every room.
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