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Originally Posted by glatt
I don't doubt that North Korea has fewer lights than South Korea, but this image looks totally fake to me. North Korea is darker here than the ocean off the coast of North Korea.
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North Korea has a major electric shortage. These shortages are why Kim Jung Il could get his extremist party elders to go along with a treaty (negotiated by Carter) that would bring N Korea back into the world. But when the US Congress stopped oil shipments that were to be part of the 'opening' of N Korea, then the Kim Jung Il had no choice but to conceded to the extremists.
With no other choice and a government dominated by fearful extremists, then N Korea has a nuclear program. To the extremist factions in N Korea, their energy shortages are due to a world that only wants to conquer the Korean people. Kim Jung Il, who actually lived outside of N Korea, knows better. But with so little energy sources and with a US Congress that cut off those promised energy supplies, then any attempt to reform N Korean government attitudes is doomed. As a result, insufficient energy to light N Korea.
Providing N Korea with enough electricity to light their cities would easily empower Kim Jung Il to eliminate the militaristic extremists who dominate his government. But with a George Jr administration putting N Korea as the next invasion after Iran, then Kim Jung Il has no hope in reforming his country. Best to only light the captial city where those extremists hold power.
As for that nuclear reactor that everyone was so upset about? 5 Megawatts. Trivial for most countries. A major source of electricity for N Korea.