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The legal restrictions have led to poorer performance of international platforms such as Google Maps or Apple Maps in South Korea. In 2016 and in 2023, Google and Apple respectively were denied mapping data, which therefore cannot offer real time or precise directions for their apps, impacting various services (including games like Pokémon Go, and more basic functionality such as driving or ...
On 1 November 2018, buffer zones were established across the DMZ by the North and South Korean militaries. [119] In compliance with the Comprehensive Military Agreement which was signed at the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, [120] the buffer zone helps ensure that both North and South Korea will effectively ban hostility on land, air, and ...
North Korea Uncovered is a comprehensive set of mappings of North Korea.It includes in-depth coverage of thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labor camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, and main roads of the country, and even includes the entrance to the country's subterranean nuclear test base, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.
Topographic map of Korea. Korea comprises the Korean Peninsula (the mainland) and 3,960 nearby islands. The peninsula is located in Northeast Asia, between China and Japan.To the northwest, the Yalu River separates Korea from China and to the northeast, the Tumen River separates Korea from China and Russia.
The North Korean Ministry of Land and Environmental Protection estimates that North Korea's average temperature rose by 1.9 °C between 1918 and 2000. [16] In the 2013 edition of Germanwatch's Climate Risk Index , North Korea was judged to be the seventh hardest hit by climate-related extreme weather events of 179 nations during the period 1992 ...
North Korea, [d] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), [e] is a country in East Asia.It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Map of South Korea. South Korea is located in East Asia, on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula located out from the far east of the Asian landmass. The only country that shares a land border with South Korea is North Korea, lying to the north with 238 kilometres (148 mi) of the border running along the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Both North and South Korea claim complete sovereignty over the entire peninsula and outlying islands. [156] Despite mutual animosity, reconciliation efforts have continued since the initial separation between North and South Korea. Political figures such as Kim Ku worked to reconcile the two governments even after the Korean War. [157]