Prison Camps, Nuke Sites - Google Maps Spots North Korea's Dirty Little Secrets

GOOGLE MAPS (USA)

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Thanks to its community of "citizen cartographers" who joined forces on Google Map Maker, Google says in a blog post, the U.S.-based Internet giant has managed to give its maps of North Korea a tremendous overhaul – including an updated bird's eye-view of some the country's most secretive locations, i.e. prison camps and nuclear facilities...

Scroll down to give it a spin – wanna see if you can spot Kim Jong-un?


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Pyongyang before

Pyongyang now

Hwasong Gulag in northeastern North Korea



Crunched by: Bertrand Hauger

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