While Google Maps feels like a solid mapping solution, it has some blank spots — particularly when it comes to regions such as North Korea. But that's all changing thanks to a group of "citizen ...

(AP) 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, monuments and its ...

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel asked Americans this week to find North Korea on a map. It didn’t go well. But can you do better? Use the interactive below to point out where the hermit kingdom is in the ...

Few realize that South Korea bars foreign companies from exporting the mapping data necessary for digital map services. That may soon change. Every day hundreds of visitors step off the AREX train at ...

It happened in a surprising instant: North Korea became just a little bit more accessible. Google Maps now features data on the secretive country, with the names of streets and buildings labeled, plus ...

North Korean defectors have long denounced the abysmal conditions and human rights abuses going on inside the hermit state, where the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un runs a repressive fiefdom.

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea delayed a decision on Friday on a request from Google for permission to export map data, following U.S. pressure to address what Washington regards as a non-tariff barrier ...