All the talk of North Korea in the news made me think of the memorable Earth at Night photo. Guess I wasn't the only one. Radley Balko reports that Donald Rumsfeld mentioned the map at a news conference recently:

Rumsfeld noted the stark contrast between North and South Korea on that map. The North, he noted, is almost completely indistinguishable, while the South is almost completely illuminated. A stark example of the wonders of free markets.



It really is a wonder to look over. Find Japan first (note how illuminated it is, too), then find the brightly-lit nub just to the west of Japan's southern tip. That's South Korea. The barren darkness just above it is North Korea. Note the similar contrast between Cuba and Florida. Between China and Japan.

A bigger version of the picture is here.

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