Curtis Melvin has sought to cast light on the mysterious state of North Korea. From 2006 to 2009, he employed Google Earth to create "North Korea Uncovered," one of the most detailed maps of North Korea that has ever been available to the public. Melvin has gone on to help develop "38 North: DPRK Digital Atlas," which depicts thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labor camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, main roads and even the entrance to the country's subterranean nuclear test base, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.

Speaker Biography: Curtis Melvin is a researcher at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

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