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North Korea's Prison Camps Are Now On Google Maps
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.)"
This has been on the iOS platforms since the last update. I asked Siri for riving direction to Sam's Hamburger shack and ended up in a NK concentration camp. Kinda hard to explain to Lil Un, but after a few months I was let go.
I mean I always read about westerners trying to sneak into the country
Must be the awesome there
He is now a Google Maps robot. It's really pretty ingenious. The only way to access this information was as a high-level person, so Google had no other choice.
If you look at OpenStreetMap's maps of North Korea in comparison to Google, you see that the OSM maps are of much higher quality, as well as being Free (unlike Google MapMaker):
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=125.7375&lat=39.03865&zoom=12
(Google maintains that the recent trip to Pyongyang by CEO Eric Schmidt had nothing to do with this project.)"
North Korea maintains that this project has nothing to do with their ongoing development of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles that can reach Mountain View, CA.
Seems to be a pretty cool resort
http://goo.gl/maps/bVK4C
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Why were they not on before? I was just looking at NK last weak and found in no time the buildings where NK and SK face each other ! And I couldent find that place after looking for 30 min a year ago !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4NIB6xroc
no it's same type of camps the jews where put it
Very old : video
The FEMA death camps that have been set up to imprison free and liberated Americans as Obama's Atheistic Muslim Communist Fascism is implemented in this country.
The abortion-mill brothels will also not be shown. Because Google is in it on it, as is NASA, SpaceX, and Boeing. It's all part of the conspiracy with the Reverse Vampires and Doctor Evil.
When NK falls and the full extent to which its people have been oppressed is revealed, the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
The jews didn't have to pay for health care while in camp either.
Does iOS have reviews? Google does, and I think this place looks better than a lot of the places the Lonely Planet recommends in that neighborhood...
I followed the links through to a Guardian review of the book about Shin, only to find "This content has been removed as our copyright has expired." WTF?
Fortunately, the Wayback Machine is a bit more sane and has the full story: http://web.archive.org/web/20120320021739/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/16/escape-north-korea-prison-camp
Its ironic the timing of this since Schmidt just traveled there.
Yes, a US invention, btw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp#Concentration_camp
and sold it for X5 the cost of taking out with you getting $0 out of it.
The maps for China don't actually align to the satellite image? The maps are reasonably accurate, but they're off by a few miles or so, it looks like. But then the border lines up with the satellite image, and the maps for North Korea, right across the border, line up perfectly with the satellite image. Is it just me? Am I seeing things?
Here's a portion of the border which demonstrates the problem: http://goo.gl/maps/ObMDJ
I'll be impressed when I can see the prisoners waving at the StreetView truck...
It's well and widely known the atrocities that go on there. From reports, things that make saddams rape rooms look like candyland. Of course like the shameful stupid nations we are, we continue to further isolate and punish the people of NK via sanctions and cock waving with its leaders. They could have ended hostilities long ago by trying to catch bees with honey instead of pouring vinegar on them and watching the people of NK pay the price. Knock out the leadership once and for all or come to the table and play nice. It's so shameful that the worlds answer has been "shame on you, no bags of rice for the poor this week" in response to decades of human rights abuses.
If you have netflix, I'd recommend Kimjongilia. It covers the stories of defectors, including Shin. Very well done.
The civilized world has been progressively removed from reality and will be too busy chatting on Facebook, worried about latest stock market fluctuations, and getting semi-affordable gas at the pump.
Typical response: "NK free? Yay! What movie u goin 2 see?"
I feel the summary is missing a step. The fellow escape across the border to China and was granted citizenship in Seoul? Is there a step missing where he transfers to South Korea, or did the author get the destination country wrong?
What no Google street-view? ;)
Even more revolting about North Korean gulags are that they place multiple generations of the same family into the camps and there are even 2nd generation born inmates born in the camps for the "crimes" of their grandparents.
How come so called "activists" such as anonymous or wiki-leaks don't target North Korea?
Bash Iran. Bash NK. Bash Muslims. Love Israel. Love zionists. Love the US war machine. Business as usual for Slashdot editors.
The USA locks up more people (as a percentage of population) than any other nation on the planet. The USA boasts that prisoners will suffer sexual abuse, and US TV producers think prison 'rape' is the greatest joke ever. The USA, like Saudi Arabia, executes child criminals (people who commit their offense before their 18th birthday). The USA executes the mentally disabled.
The USA imprisons political prisoners in torture facilities - called SuperMax prisons. The USA uses black sites across the planet as secret prisons. The USA tortures prisoners on a regular basis- foreign and domestic.
Why then do we have yet another story demonising NK?
A few days ago, it was reported that the Jewish State of Israel is CURRENTLY sterilizing legal black immigrants against their will. By the recent standards of Slashdot, this certainly counts as a valid story to promote here. However, the owners of Slashdot will NEVER permit any story that shows the true evil racist nature of the warmongering zionist monsters that rule Israel.
Obama's state department states that the mainstream media within the USA should find every opportunity to attack Iran, Syria, North Korea, and a growing list of African States. Slashdot follows Obama's instruction to the letter. Curiously, most American Tech sites also lean to the pro-war extreme-right political position.
Your own link points out that the Polish possibly imprisoned people in this manner before the US; also that the term was actually coined by the British in the Boer War. And should we really go heavy on the finger pointing here? After all, the implication is that before concentration camps subjugated people were simply slaughtered en mass.
Yes, but in his defense, we still claim to have invented it (like the car, etc).
The country of North Korea does serve as an example to all freedom loving people that, when good people do nothing, evil triumphs.
What is happening now in North Korea could happen anywhere, and I mean, anywhere, including the US of A, if the Americans keep on giving up their God given rights in exchange for "peaceful society".
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
When the US falls and the full extent to which its people have been oppressed is revealed, the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
FTFY
I can't wait to invade now...
Listen I took a deep shit (code name) in Pyongyang and it was intense. Don't fuck with that shit. Don't hate the playa hate the game
Google is by far the most secretive company I have ever known. There got to be something to going on between North Korean government and Eric's visit. I mean i understand Google needed to hide everything from Microsoft and Yahooo and Amazon... to grow at the very beginning. But now.... after they already became one of those giant?! Please tell us more google!
When the US was backing Germany, US volunteers went to the UK to fight on the right side. Men and women who put their lives on the line for what they believed in.
You believe in something? Then put your life on the line. Ah, thought so, life is a bit to comfortable sitting behind a computer spouting morality. Trust me, I know. It is easy to ignore the horrors of the world if they aren't happening to you.
We will all find different excuses for it "one man can't change anything" "I have no power" "the US is not the worlds police man" "China is backing them". But it all just means "don't rock my boat".
The simple fact is that NK could be liberated in a week IF the world wanted to. China is NOT going to risk global war over it if the US and the west flexed its muscle. Notions that it might not like the US on its border are beyond silly, the US doesn't have the resources to fight China on its own turf and with US fleets and international presence, it already HAS plenty of power close to China anyway.
But the fact is also that it would be a brutal fight with little financial reward. No oil. Now I am not saying the west is only interested in oil but liberating NK would be a gigantic undertaking which requires lots of boats being rocked and while the world will PROBABLY make sure none of the boats tipped over, why bother when you can just sit there and ignore it?
This is hardly the first time the world has managed to look the other way. Not even the other way, a zebra will watch an other zebra struggle and die at the hands of a lion and think itself lucky that today the Lion has been fed. The truth is that the lions would be just a dirty smear on the savannah if the herbivores put in the tiniest amount of effort (Zebra's kicks, buffalo charges, hippo bites, elephant trunk slaps have ALL killed Lions with ease) but it is easier not to.
Right now, in your city, someone is sleeping on the street. You can put them in a shelter for less then the price of a game. Are you getting out of your chair yet? No? Me neither. I know I am a moral vacuum, do you? Don't argue, there is nobody here who can't afford to help a homeless person on Slashdot. But most don't. There are no excuses.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
So that's what Eric Schmidt was doing there... He even brought his daughter with him to help. :)
Let's make a joke about this as long as the US books bad. LOLz