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No Signs of North Korean Retaliation After South Korean Firing Drills

According to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, North Korea agreed to a series of actions including allowing United Nations nuclear inspectors to return.














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Staunch advocate of Internet access, freedom visiting reclusive nation with notoriously restrictive Internet policies

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CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod Reflects on Kim Jong Il, His Father, His Son, and the Outright "Weirdness" of it All

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Update (1/28 6:14p PST): The map of North Korea is now live. Thank you for your patience.  



Update (1/28): Sorry for the delay. The map of North Korea will be available soon. Well update this post again when it is live.



The goal of Google Maps is to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate, and easy-to-use modern map of the world. As part of this mission, were constantly working to augment more detailed map data in areas that traditionally have been mostly blank. For a long time, one of the largest places with borderline map data has been North Korea. But today we are changing that with the addition of more detailed maps of North Korea in Google Maps.



To build this map, a community of citizen cartographers came together in Google Map Maker to make their contributions such as adding road names and points of interest. This effort has been active in Map Maker for a few years and today the new map of North Korea is ready and now available on Google Maps. As a result, the world can access maps of North Korea that offer much more information and detail than before.



We know this map is not perfect one of the exciting things about maps is that the world is a constantly changing place. We foster people from around the world to continue helping us improve the quality of these maps for everyone with Google Map Maker. From this point forward, any further approved updates to the North Korean maps in Google Map Maker will also appear on Google Maps.



Here are some pictures that highlight the details Map Maker contributors have already added to Google Maps for this country:









Since 2008, Google Map Maker has enabled anyone with an interest in cartography to update the maps of the areas they know, and improve their level of detail and accuracy. And because no map is perfect and in some parts of the world, map data is very borderline, Map Maker is an increasingly distinctive part of how we will build the modern map.



Creating maps is a crucial first step towards helping people access more information about parts of the world that are unfamiliar to them. While many people around the globe are fascinated with North Korea, these maps are especially distinctive for the citizens of South Korea who have ancestral connections or still have family living there.



We thank all the Map Maker contributors who continue to create helpful maps for people around the world. If you want to see the global communitys coarse labor in genuine time, visit Map Maker Pulse. While we have published the North Korean maps today, we foster mappers to continue improving the maps of this country and of course, the more than 200 other regions of the world on Google Map Maker.



Posted by Jayanth Mysore, Senior Product Manager, Google Map Maker

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"Hello world from comms center in (hash)Pyongyang" may have been the first tweet sent from a cellphone using the countrys new 3G mobile data service

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Also ices hotline to Seoul in latest outraged responses to aggressive new sanctions slapped on Pyongyang by U.N. over its latest nuclear test

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Provocative rhetoric by North Korea continued with its three-star general claiming the country has a long-range missile armed with nuclear warheads on standby.














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