A nasa image released this week shows a recent night.
Satellite photo of north and south korea at night.
Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery as shown by south korea s eastern shoreline.
See related north korea.
The photos and a time lapse video of the region show the country as almost completely black in contrast to the bright lights of neighbors like south korea and japan.
Satellite images shed new light on the secretive state.
The south west including north hwanghae province south hwanghae province and the city of kaesong.
North korea by night.
These differences are illustrated in per capita power consumption in the two countries with south korea at 10 162 kilowatt hours and north korea at 739 kilowatt hours.
In 2002 the defense secretary donald rumsfeld unveiled a satellite photo showing almost the exact same thing in north korea at night.
A photo taken from space and showing a pitch black north korea next to a brightly lit south korea is one of the most famous images of the country.