Annotated map exposes graves, nuke facilities—and swimming pools
(NEWSER) - Spying on North Korea would seem to be a job for intelligence services, but one PhD student at George Mason University has exposed many of the secrets of the insular regime from his home computer. Piecing together clues from news reports, photos, and eyewitnesses, Curtis Melvin and colleagues have annotated Google Earth's map of North Korea with hundreds of labels, documenting everything from mass graves to a waterslide. "It's democratized intelligence," he tells the Wall Street Journal. More»