{"id":616,"date":"2009-06-03T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-06-03T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:32:25","slug":"citizen-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Google Maps, we know that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has an awesome<\/i> swimming pool, complete with a bitchin’ water slide:<\/p>\n


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But Google Maps also shows us the cost of excess.<\/p>\n


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This is a very small sampling of the mass graves resulting from the 1995-1998 famines (the “Arduous March”) that killed around two million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This hellish tour of North Korean is curated by Curtis Melvin, a PhD candidate who, along with a few fellow investigators, has spent the last two years annotating the maps of North Korea in Google Earth. He was recently profiled in a fascinating Wall Street Journal article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go to Curtis Melvin’s site<\/a> to download the incredible kmz file which will open up in Google Earth if you have it installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Google Maps, we know that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has an awesome swimming pool, complete with a bitchin’ water slide: (click to see it on Google Maps) But Google Maps also shows us the cost of excess. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,21,22,25,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-defense","category-news","category-pain","category-politics","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}