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I don’t get this…
its showing how lit up south korea is and how dark north korea is
And all along the border and coast both countries have lines of huge searchlights pointing up?
And see that one spot of light in North Korea? That’s where Kim Jong il lives.
i dont get it either
you are all fuking stupid, south korea which is an ally is capitalist and is thriving, where as north korea is communist, hates the US and is totally impoverished because they belive Kim il Sung and Kim Jong il are gods when they are actually fuking fascist american hating lunatics, so please read something you fuktards.
this isnt even a fail. this is a serious matter. north korea saves all their money on ammunition, that the people dont even get light. that’s how harsh they are to people. this shouldnt even be a fail. this is just sad.
maybe south korea got nuked and that why it lighten up XD
but i do agree with you it sucks for USA soon…
My Boyfriend used to live in South Korea, but he could tell you about the shit that goes on between North and South Korea. The kids in the school actually have war and bomb drills.
just because it’s sad doesn’t mean the fail is any less epic
you spelled the f word wrong like 3 times you retard
Hahaha!
that notwithstanding, his remark was probably one of the more insightful that i’ve encountered in all the time i’ve been checking out this site. . . .
but really, you guys take this blog sh*t FAR too seriously
no! it was just a hateful propagandist egocentric comment.
Hes probably a “fuking” 7 year old who doesn’t know what it means either.
Maybe the North Koreans all have the lights out because their busy gang banging your mom?
because they are making love, how clever they are… best peacefull free activity to do by night =)
hum, do i look like an hippie? lol
btw i dont mean with his mom
Your comment aroused my nipples.
wow, you give them reason
Very much like China who are communists too and have one of the most failless economies…
Also, being an ally to the US means little, I doubt Uzbekistan is their enemy and look at them…
plz, read something
i think you may find that North Korea is not fascist but is indeed Communist
Ok, but, you can’t tell all that from this picture alone. I had no idea what the white spots were supposed to be. It needs a legend.
It’s a visualization of electrical power/electrical light use. South Korea is a tad more developed than North Korea, which doesn’t seem to have anything except for a small blip for the capital city.
a tad? South Korea’s the 13th largest economy in the world and North Korea’s not even listed out of around 190 countries. I would say it’s more than a tad.
way to not get sarcasm when you see it…
i know right. sheesh
You fail at sarcasm recognition.
i want to suck your balls.
right north korea is havin an econamy FAIL RIGHT now. but they do hav The bomb now D:
spelling fail.
having*
economy*
have*
SPELLING POLICE TO THE RESCUE!!!
DUDE SO DRAMATIC…DO NOT FAIL ME OR I WILL KILL U!
Giggity.*
a tad, lol understatement of the century
Military taticts: darken your cities/bases so bombers can’t see them at night; this forces the fighters to attack in daylight where they are vulnerable…..common practice when they have credable recon that an attack is commin
Perhaps in World War II, ever heard of GPS?
satellites in the 1940s? what?
Fail.
I agree.
fail.
While flying over North Korea at night in an AIRPLANE in order to bomb a city you would need to be able to see the lights from the city to know where the city actually is. Nice job Sherlock.
YOU FAIL!!! I was in the Air Force. Bombers use night vision, g.p.s. and satellite guided bombs. No lights are needed to see anything
Technology fail.
GPS has only been around since the 90’s.
They were just discovering RADAR in WWII, so yeah, I bet Hitler’s invasion of Poland was helped largely by his high tech GPS system…
I think he meant:
“Perhaps in World War II you would turn your lights out so bombers were forced to make runs during the day. However, in the 21st century we have GPS (let alone night & thermal vision) so North Korea “darkening” themselves is not an appropriate or wise defense against bombing.”
;laksd fail
eric fail
Enemy Comma win
And his side-kick follows up with another one!
way to read the comments right.
FAIL.
they were talking about needing the lights in the 1940’s in order to see the cities at night. they were not talking about using GPS back then. it was mentioned that now we have GPS, but that back then tactics like shutting of city lights at night in order to hide cities were used during the 1940s. wow.
You dumb ass, he was saying that the tactic described above would be used in world war 2 and that now we have GPS
read something dumba ss they have no light up cities to bomb, pyong yang(the capital) has rolling blackouts almost every week
ty for explaining I didn’t understand it at first. At first I thought it was like bombs or WMD, but then I was like wait north korea is the bad one and south is good… so thanks.
I do believe South Korea is “a tad” more developed than North Korea, but I don’t think that this picture is representative in that sense.
Kim Il-sung, president of NK, was declared dead by physicians on 8th of july, 1994. However, he is officially a deity, and so he really never died, therefore he hasn’t left office, and so, officially, General Kim Jong-il, the president-god’s son, is merely General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defense Commission, taking care of the country until the Eternal President returns.
Every household in NK is equipped with a government-controlled radio. The government decides when this radio is used, and for what, by controlling them remotely.
NK civillians are not allowed to own an automobile of any sort, that is the domain of the military.
In the late ’90’s, the NK people were finally told that Elvis had permenately left the building.
Kim Jong-il is an active golfer, and state media reports that he routinely hits 3-4 hole-in-ones per round (the odds of hitting one single hole-in-one is, per one round, 5000 to 1).
Kim Jong-il has written six operas and refers to himself as an internet expert.
The official biography of Kim Jong-il states that his birth was heralded by a swallow, and that when the birth took place, a double rainbow appeared on the sky, and a new star was to be seen in the heavens.
To sum it up: No, I don’t think that this picture is representative of NK’s electrical development, but rather an example of simon says. Kim Jong-il says good night, and then hits the light for you.
Uh okay that was the most far-fetched fail I’ve seen yet.
You can check this out on Google Earth by going to the Gallery folder in Layers, and then the NASA folder and then selecting Earth City Lights.
It’s real
Actually, it shows a failure of gigantic proportions. In North Korea the citizens are always being told how much they have t better than their fellows in the south.
Meanwhile, NK is investing all the capital it can into newer & better weapons. This, of course, brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “Hate is darkness, no matter where it builds its nest.”
deep bro, deep
very deep.
im curious, who wrote that?
i did. now shut up.
ohhh wattt ahhhhh
What’s the big bright blip in the sea to the west of S. Korea?
Seems way to big to be a boat and there are no islands over there.
you just failed… thats on land
hahah nope i just had the ultimate geography fail you were right after all
whoops
Could be an oil rig, or it could be one of the numerous islands the fishermen use as ports. The east yellow sea is a hotspot for blue crab fishing, and also for oil.
oil rig on land?
PS – you can’t fish for crabs on land… unless you are sleeping around… ask craig to make sure though
perhaps a naval formation of some sorts. either the us or S. Koreas or both?
Perhaps NK is still using WWII-style blackout curtains? The war is over people …
Not curtains…There’s no electricity anywhere except the capitol. The people there are really repressed.
Unification gets more and more difficult/impossible with each passing day…
I fail to see this as a fail. At least North Korea won’t have to worry about their carbon footprint.
Bright lights do not make a civilisation… otherwise Las Vegas could be seen as the pinnacle of American culture.
Oh wait, it is the pinnacle American culture.
yeah, thats EXACTLY what their doing. North Korea loves the earth so much, that its building nukes to blow everyone up with.
Communism: Fail.
Environmentalism: Epic Fail
OMFG best reply ever….
i couldn’t believe the absurdity of that last comment but all of my irk was relieved by that epic ownage.
Absolutely seconded. Lol’s comment = epic win.
Triple epic win!!! lmao north korea worrying about carbon foot print.. epic realistic view point fail! sorry mike moon. thanks for playing.
Close but no cigar, kid. lol’s spelling and grammar are both fail. We’ll just
give him a partial comment win.
Good day.
Caring too much about spelling on the most informal of blogs – FAIL!
Comment above: WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahhaha like theyre the only ones dude
your comment is fail… no one cares about your greanpeace bullshit… North Korea is EPIC fail and this is a great fail picture… and yes Las Vegas is the pinnacle of American modern culture… name one place in the U.S. that is visited more often.
New York?
The bathroom?
I can’t help but agree with you, jandrsn…
…florida…? i don’t know, people with kids go there. or maybe hollywood? (is that how you spell it…? it doesn’t look quite right…)
>< Wtf? Believe it or not, they make Las Vegas a hell of a lot flashier than it really is…
Bright lights may not make a civilization but lack of light is certainly a marker of a civilization which is not even close to being modern.
Consider that the lights help illustrate where the electrical power grid reaches. I’ve looked at the Earthlights images many times but I never focused on NK. Insane.
Spelling fail.
civilization**
NO YOU FAIL HE SPELT IT RIGHT
Finally! I had to scroll a third of the way down the page ‘til someone got it right. This was taken during North Korean Earth Hour. South Korea are obviously in a different time zone.
I suppose its also a “fail” that 3 million of them starved to death 10 years ago or that disgusting atrocities happen every day in that country. Would it also be a “fail” that soldiers violently rape and murder people’s daughters and wives? Contrary to popular belief, its completely acceptable to not find everything humorous.
yes, 3 million people starving to death is “FAIL”. in fact i’m pretty sure it is “EPIC FAIL”.
tru bru
you would have a valid arguement if this happened to be a fail on the raping of people/their starvation. However since it is clearly NOT about either you sir fail here just as badly with this comment here as you did with this same post in the van fail.
wow. nice of you to shove the fact that he commented on the wrong picture in his face. he’s obviously serious and maybe deliriously pasionate about this subject. don’t be mean. please.
I find it hilarious.
contrary to popular belief clint, every thing is funny if TOLD properly, anti n-korean jokes, jokes about my mum, jokes about my dog, jokes about every single person on earths race, disability, ethnicity, handicap or whatever
all that good stuff!! all up for grabs coz funnys funny no matter whos involved.
George Carlin proved, even rape is funny if its told properly
are we really talking about this? this is ridiculous.
“all that good stuff!! all up for grabs coz funnys funny no matter whos involved.”
I’m going to deduce from the above statement that your conscience is on par with your grammar and spelling.
i laugh at your mom w/ aids
i second that laugh
i third? well, i just agree.
actually the spelling’s right, he just isn’t putting in punctuation (apostrophes), which isn’t that big of a deal… “coz” is a common way of shortening “because,” especially outside of the United States. Therefore: Who cares.
especially outside? i thought it was just us inside that did that! and it’s normally spelled cuz, also used as an abbreviation of cousin. didn’t shakesphere invent that word?
Fail. It’s not “cuz”, it’s “’cause”.
As we all know, humor is often the only way people know how to deal with certain things. This being a blog on the internet, and not the border of the Koreas, or the office of a leader of a powerful nation, or the floor of a UN meeting, there probably isn’t a need to be too serious about what we say and being humorous is not a big deal.
Just giving some exposure to the issue is good. But mixing in a little more substance in a dialogue never hurt anyone. As Clint pointed out, the whole situation in NK is pretty bleak. I’d like to think it’s possible for the rest of the world to have some positive effect on it.
But what can we do when we look at these huge, seemingly impossible issues? I sure as hell don’t know…I’d rather make a joke too. I’m just not as funny as I would like to be…and I can’t come up with one at the moment.
this was the first picture i saw coming to this site. i got a pretty good laugh out of it =P
If not feeding people and letting them die is not a “fail”, what is it? Is it a “succeed”? Wow, Clint is a heartless prick who makes Dick Cheney look like one of the Lollipop Kids.
Maybe the people in North Korea enjoy being oppressed – you ever think of that?
yes, there will always be “bottoms” in this world
This being chiefly, at first blush, a visual, hopefully humorous website and pictures of people being raped, and starving to death (if the DPRNK government would allow you to take them) are decidedly not funny, lighten up already!!
Let us pig out!
Maybe NK is farther advanced in conserving carbon output than the rest of us?
love you
Going by the picture, they definitely seem green. Well, as long as they’re not testing bombs.
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This is one of the best fails ever.
lol@”at least they won’t have a big carbon footprint.” Yeah, going back to the stone age, that’s the solution to environmental challenges…FAIL
yeah, don’t they know that the khmer rouge already tried that and failed..
the khmer rouge FAILED when vietnam invaded cambodia when they (khmer rouge) were busy wiping out 2 million out their small population. it was an epic fail on the part of the khmer rouge for being at odds with vietnam, who had just owned the americans and their south vietnamese buddies. thousands or millions more could’ve been murdered by the khmer rouge if it weren’t vietnam, who saved the day unknowingly by invading cambodia in the goals of regime change.
well, the n. koreans would know soon enough when south korea would suddenly invade the north should lee myung bak tries to kick kim jong-il out of his throne. History repetition win.
nick = antifail incarnate.
Lights at sea are fishing fleets.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/dprk-dark.htm
apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg
North Korea is not even remotely green. It is one of the most polluted places on Earth. While they have no cars or coal burning power plants, they do import nuclear waste but lack the facilities to properly contain or dispose of it.
There are credible reports of people dying in the streets from starvation and being left for days, forced labor, rapes, murders, and extreme poverty. There are anecdotal reports of organized organ harvesting and cannibalism. At first i didn’t beleive them, but after seeing some videos taken by dissidents i would believe it.
Logic fail. Not only is it false to say that North Korea has no coal burning power plants, but it doesn’t even make any sense. Building those nukes and rockets of theirs takes quite a lot of electricity, you know. And the same goes for cars – you think they transport ballistic missile parts by ox wagon?
DPRK is a failure in every sense–politically, economically, and socially. Its leaders represent the lowest, most craven and depraved level of human existence. Its people have an existence that would be considered unacceptable for most animals in the civilized world. It is a model of utter and complete failure of human existence.
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The fact that they don’t use electricity only means that they have to get their energy from other, more dirty sources, like chopping down forests for firewood.
http://geology.com/articles/satellite-photo-earth-at-night.shtml
As you can see, this is real. South Korea is lit up like a xmas tree and N Korea is just a dark blotch above it.
I saw this in the newspaper. It’s either electricity or internet.
Probably they do have electricity, they have a curfew.
Do you know that neither one of them is the ruler of their country? Your world politics information is fail.
Well, the only person above KJI is technically, y’know, dead. He is PRESIDENT FAIL.
“President Fail”
Sorry ‘mh’ we aren’t talking about bush.
“dee-aussie”, we’re obviously not talking about bush.
the person above KJI who is, literally and technically, dead is none other
than KJI’s father Kim Il-sung, and yes, KIS is A PRESIDENT FAIL.
he’s long dead for about 14 years now and besides the fact that he is
being worshiped, he is officially the president/head of state of north korea.
KJI officialy holds the position of chairman of the national defense
commission (aka the army) which power he should’ve shared the premier
and the president of the people’s assembly. but as son and appointed
heir of KIS, KJI is more equal than others.
and to think North Korea isn’t worse under KJI than it’s was for the 50 years
under the iron fist of KIS the god-dictator.
Their Juche ideology means their country is an “Autarky.” ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autarky )
North Korea’s full name is the Democratic Autarkic Republic of Korea – D.A.R.K.
Correct. DPRNK is the name of the company that used to be known as DKNY.
It stands for Donna ‘Pretty Rich Now’ Karan.
Do I have to post this three times?
Their Juche system makes their country an autarky. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autarky
The country’s full name is the Democratic Autarkic Republic of Korea – D.A.R.K.
Why didn’t that last comment submit?
Their Juche system makes their country an autarky.
The country’s full name is the Democratic Autarkic Republic of Korea – D.A.R.K.
You can use Google and enter the string “define:autarky.”
Okay, I am not interested in defending the government of N.Korea or its leader.
But what you are seeing here is a state-mandated electricity curfew due to limitations in their electricity supply, NOT a total lack of electricity.
They have both a grid and electricity to every populated area.
And I am not surprised that the capital is allowed electricity. They have to run the country still now don’t they?
What they don’t have is 21st century electricity distribution to get electricity from China and S.Korea. They live in a very mountainous country and upgrading to such a system would require billions and billions.
Also it is possible to have a prosperous and enjoyable life w/o nighttime electricity. Remember candles, starlight, batteries?! You can actually see the star w/o all that light pollution.
When you can see light from space satellites that took these pictures what that actually represents is wasted energy from the light directed outward instead of toward the ground and back to your eyes so you can see. I don’t see why I should be impressed by the amount of wasted energy directed at space. Do you?
I also don’t get the need to oversimplify the situation so that you can feel good about not liking Communism.
Internet, electricity, nukes, enviromentalism blabalbalba
It looks like the Predator bled on a map of the Korean peninsula…
… Oi vey. Communism doesn’t work (on a macro level, so don’t point to hippy communes as an example of it working) because a truly equal society CANNOT exist without a totalitarian government to enforce it, which contradicts the philosophy! That’s the flaw, in a nutshell. Oh, and by the way? The anonymity of the internet does not excuse you of rationalizing a way of life that gives next to no freedom to those who live it, WITHOUT CHOICE. You go live as one of the people of China or North Korea for a few years. See how you like it. I’m SURE that governments that specialize in strictly controlling the information that gets to their people would be GLAD to let you in to tell them just how badly capitalism has worked out for you. And I’m assuming that you live in a capitalistic society because, well, you’re on a site that says that North Korea is a failure.
Political science fail. Enforcing equality requires no more government power than enforcing capitalist property rights. It’s the same thing: Making sure people don’t acquire wealth by illegal means. Only the list of things that count as “illegal means” is different.
… I fail for not reading that post well. Sorry, dude.
anyone who posted more than three sentences fails for caring too much. its funny and thats all i care about. the comedy comes in the rivalry between north an south. and how south has them in pretty much every way.
that was four.
i’ve seen this before. it is NOT “a visualization of electrical power/electrical light use.” It is a visualization of active internet connections or computers connected to the internet.
then epic fail for the entire country having less internets than a fishing fleet
Kim Jong faIl
WTF, it North Korea looks like a face here vomiting down on South Korea! WTF! Or is this just me?
(NO I’m not pro north korean)
pro north Korean?? is there even such a thing
yeah, it does seem to look like a face. the real reason why north korea has no electricity or lights is because it has VOMITED all its electricity on south korea.
look at that massive blotch of electricity it just regurgitated on the area where seoul should be.
How about???
BACK TO THE STONEAGE WIN…?
lol that one dot must be happy.
everybody here is quite clearly jesus and never fails at anything
My father lost his hand and part of his left ribcage in the Korean war. I think this proves what he was fighting for was true and good. This is the best FAIL on the web so far.
Don’t really see how not wasting electricity on an epic scale and therefore contributing to a global environmental disaster is deemed to be failure?
Must be an American thing?
Sorry to have confused you genius. Maybe one of our commenters will explain it to you. Ceelala, its the short bus for you, idiot.
This picture is photoshopped. NK isn’t that dark duh.
Look at them! Can we please stomp these pussies with our bloated military budget so they’ll quit launching missiles into the sea of Japan. They’re scaring my Anime homies.
Ok, who skeeted on South Korea
this isnt even that funny
Many of the comments here suffer from epic tech knowledge fail.
Apparently North Korea is a stone age country with no electricity that can somehow build nukes and launch missiles over Japan’s head. Go figure.
We should perform a nuclear test on N. Korea
This is not a real photograph. It is a representation of the populated aread vs the lesser populated areas. An artist did this picture to represent where lit-up areas would be. The reason North Korea is dark is not because they don’t have lights, its because they are communist and do not release information about their population to other countries.
2 all u ppl hoo curs= ur all idiots and if ur not smart enuff 2 fink uv uther ppl an children hoo get on den ur pritty dang rude. >= (
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It’s simple, really.
North Korea is a communist country that doesn’t want anyone else to know what the North Korean population is. They make it so lights aren’t to be on during the night so typical Americans can make a comment about how they’re conserving energy. (don’t hate, I live in Ohio)
To the uninformed, it looks as though North Korea is still in the stone age, compared to South Korea.
See the website link for where this photo came from.
its how much light they are using. North Korean spends most of its money on warfare and South Korean, which is allied with the US spends differently
Okay, but everyone can agree on one thing? North Korea sucks ass.
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ur all idiots… the north korean authorities turn off electricity during the night so they can save energy
not a bad idea tho.. 
People r ment to be in bed sleeping at night 
they spend all their money on guns, and they cant afford energy, or borrow. With the soviet union disbanded, there are not a lot of Communist countries around to trade, plus, they isolate themselves
I’ll make this simple. North Korea is a bad place to be. I know this first hand.
First hand? Are you a illegal N Korean immigrant bent on destruction and is now tracked down by N Korean soldiers?
At least N Korea isn’t wasting energy on light pollution. Bet they can see the stars.
I’m sure that Light Pollution is the least of their worries. The people are too busy starving and being brainwashed by their stubby little leader to notice the stars. Besides, I’d rather live in South Korea than see the stars in North Korea
or maybe its how many people are playing halo 3 abd everyone knows north koreans suck at halo.proven fact
You can see this in Google Earth
Also check out laos, cambodia and burma for the same sort of fail.
I thought it was that xbox live thing that shows how many people are on in each country.