What North Korea Doesn’t Want You To See | Super Users

Summary by Krater

North Korea analyst Jacob Bogle discusses his decade-long project mapping North Korea using satellite imagery to reveal secret infrastructure, military sites, and environmental hazards.

From the video

Answers: How has a satellite mapper mapped secret locations across North Korea?

• North Korea satellite mapping
• Uranium milling and waste disposal in Pyongsan
• North Korean military aviation and airstrips
• Secret regime infrastructure and leadership residences

What it concludes

• North Korea has dumped uranium waste directly into a river that supplies local agriculture, drinking water, and flows into South Korean waters.
• North Korean military aviation relies heavily on aging Soviet-era hardware and has installed arrestor pads at airstrips to improve aircraft survivability.
• North Korea is ruled by a stratified class system where elite citizens live in luxury apartments and mansions while the general population faces poor working conditions.