The photos, and a time-lapse video of the region, show the country as almost completely black, in contrast to the bright lights of neighbors like South Korea and Japan. (See related, " North Korea ...

Viewed at night from far above, the communist nation is a huge, nearly black patch between South Korea and China. In the years NASA has been taking such photos, there's been no real change.

It is a regime shrouded in secrecy – and images captured from space show that North Korea is also cloaked in darkness. Images of the region taken at night by Nasa astronauts aboard the ...

Taken from NASA's Earth at Night, a composite of more than 400 satellite images, it shows what connected places such as South Korea, Japan, and much of China look like, and, then at its center, is ...

The effect happens because North Korea's supply of electricity is too small to keep shining through the night. In the mid-1990s, the Soviet Union cut off the country's energy supply entirely.

The darkness shown in North Korea is due to mandatory power cuts that the country imposes at night in order to conserve dwindling electricity resources, according to Atlantic Magazine’s City Lab.

No single image could hope to capture the ruin and catastrophe brought upon the people of North Korea by the despotic Kim dynasty, but famous satellite photos of the Korean peninsula at night come ...

North Korea may be close to launching a submarine capable of firing missiles and is making efforts to conceal its preparations, new commercial satellite images obtained by CNN appear to show.

North Korea threw a parade in the middle of the night to celebrate its 73rd birthday. The country's leader, Kim Jong Un, presided over the parade as troops marched on.

North Korea held a midnight military parade in Pyongyang early Thursday to mark the 73rd anniversary of its founding, the country’s state media reported.

In 2019, North Korea proposed shutting down part of the Yongbyon nuclear complex in exchange for the lifting of all U.N. sanctions except those directly targeting its weapons of mass destruction ...

North Korea has released photos of the intermediate range ballistic missile it launched Sunday -- as well as striking images of Earth purportedly snapped from the projectile.