@maggiethatcher, why are you using Google maps as 'proof' NK is 'deserted'? Only a few places are even available by Streetview, which you'd expect, and several of those show people.
You've strung a bunch of stuff together, along with this misrepresented Google link, and lumped it under a completely ambiguous headline. You are relying completely on innuendo and people's imaginations to fill in the blanks. I'm giving this a "Potential Disinfo" flair.
Really @vindicator? This is nothing to do with street view. Have you actually looked around Pyongyang on Google Bing or Here all of which show the same but at different timepoints? Are you saying that the google map views of the Pegasus museum and such that got us going in the early days are also disinfo? How is this google map link misrepresented? What's the real problem here?
That's what I'm asking you, MT. I followed the Google link you included in your post. I clicked several others on the map -- several showed people, the rest had no street view info to show whether it was "deserted" or not. The majority is unmapped. If you click in a lot of places in the world, or even very rural places or military bases in the US, you will see the same thing.
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Vindicator ago
@maggiethatcher, why are you using Google maps as 'proof' NK is 'deserted'? Only a few places are even available by Streetview, which you'd expect, and several of those show people.
You've strung a bunch of stuff together, along with this misrepresented Google link, and lumped it under a completely ambiguous headline. You are relying completely on innuendo and people's imaginations to fill in the blanks. I'm giving this a "Potential Disinfo" flair.
maggiethatcher ago
Really @vindicator? This is nothing to do with street view. Have you actually looked around Pyongyang on Google Bing or Here all of which show the same but at different timepoints? Are you saying that the google map views of the Pegasus museum and such that got us going in the early days are also disinfo? How is this google map link misrepresented? What's the real problem here?
Vindicator ago
That's what I'm asking you, MT. I followed the Google link you included in your post. I clicked several others on the map -- several showed people, the rest had no street view info to show whether it was "deserted" or not. The majority is unmapped. If you click in a lot of places in the world, or even very rural places or military bases in the US, you will see the same thing.