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North Korea's big bash honoring founder Kim Il Sung visible from space
NY Daily News ^ | 04/26/12

Posted on 04/26/2012 7:08:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

North Korea's big bash honoring founder Kim Il Sung visible from space

Satelitte images pick up the word 'glory' in Korean

In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography.

The country is famous for organizing crowds of thousands of people using colored cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different.

This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the capital of Pyongyang was big enough to be visible from space.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: glory; nkorea; parade; satellite
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Too bad North Korean cities are so poor they’re not visible from space at night. Only country in the world that poor...


21 posted on 04/27/2012 10:10:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hoodies - because you can't kill a security camera for snitchin' - - freeper tacticalogic)
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