Google recently updated its map to include more detail of the North Korea -- a country rarely seen by the outside world. Although Americans can travel to the Asian nation, it is not encouraged by ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Google Inc. has helped fill the gap in one of the last remaining information black holes in the world by releasing a detailed map of North Korea that adds street names ...

Google's maps of North Korea show streets, monuments and gulags. Jan. 29, 2013 — -- On Tuesday, Google unveiled a detailed map of North Korea, offering a rare glimpse inside the streets ...

SEOUL — The U.S.-based Internet giant Google has unveiled a detailed map of North Korea. Maps provided by Internet search engines provide a variety of benefits to users, including travel routes ...

Only 36 percent of Americans were able to correctly identify North Korea on a map in a recent Morning Consult survey. Before discussing what that means for the latest round of saber-rattling ...

The map featured a jingoistic quote from Kim Jong Un in the top left corner. Labeled "Joseon," the term North Korea typically uses for itself, the map displayed administrative districts only for ...

Until Tuesday, North Korea appeared on Google Maps as a near-total white space — no roads, no train lines, no parks and no restaurants. The only thing labeled was the capital city, Pyongyang.

From space, the nighttime map of North Korea has a curious distinction: it is almost completely dark. Next door, South Korea glitters with great splotches of economic life, and, on the other side ...

Well, a recent update to Google Maps has the answer for you. It has filled in the big, largely blank space that previously lay north of the well-mapped South Korea with streets, towns and landmarks.

North Korea was long a big blank space on Google Maps. No roads were visible. No train lines. In fact, Pyongyang, the secretive communist nation's capital, was the only identified landmark.

SEOUL, South Korea — Google threw open its Google Maps program for North Korea to “citizen cartographers” around the world Tuesday, urging them to contribute whatever knowledge they have abo ...