View North And South Korea At Night From Space Background. North korea (the dark area) and south korea are seen at night in this nasa photograph from the international space station. This volcano on the border of china and north korea is paektu, or baekdu, mountain.

How North Koreans And Chinese Trade Across Their Cold Frontier from www.reuters.com

South korea is a fragmented state with a physical border and they have the 38th parallel. But this isn't always the case, and the korean peninsula shows why. Other than several small spots international inspectors have been denied entry, which has resulted in increasingly harsh sanctions led in large part by the united states and south korea.

Thirty years ago, north and south korea were more alike than different.

View of korean peninsula at night from space; View of planet earth from the surface of the moon with the south. The map shows the amount of light that can be observed from space, at night, in north and south korea (as well as a part of china). North korea on the eve of the war.