North Korea's Prison Camps Are Now On Google Maps

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @09:11AM from the follow-the-dirt-road-and-hang-a-left-at-the-Denny's dept.

pigrabbitbear writes "It's been nearly a decade since Shin Dong-hyuk, an ex-prisoner of North Korea's Camp 14, crawled over the electrocuted body of a friend lying dead on a fence, a boundary he was born inside of and lived within for 23 years. He made his way across the Chinese border on foot and was granted political asylum and citizenship in Seoul. Now, thanks to updated Google maps of the region, you can actually (if somewhat loosely) retrace the steps of his incredible escape. Through its Map Maker program, which crowdsources cartographic info, Google has published finer details of some North Korean roads. More notably, it has included shaded-in locations of the country's notorious prison camps. The data has flowed in from a few different sources, including defected North Korean expats now living in Seoul. Geographically-minded tourists and visitors of North Korea have weighed in, and historic map data from pre-partitioned Korea into has also been helpful. (Google maintains that the recent trip to Pyongyang by CEO Eric Schmidt had nothing to do with this project.)"

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Re:North Korea does serve as an example ... by BasilBrush · 2013-01-29 13:38 · Score: 1, Flamebait

1) There is no god to give out rights. Rights are discussed and agreed upon amongst people.
2) The origin of North Korea wasn't the lack of people standing up for their rights. The origin was the partitioning of the country into to and the subsequent remote playing out of the cold war between the then world superpowers of The USSR and the USA.
It has absolutely nothing to do with your assumed gun rights. Change the tune.