Korea will decide in August whether to provide Google with high-precision map data, following a review highlighting national security concerns and the impacts on domestic industry.

Liberal lawmakers and academic experts urged South Korea to continue withholding detailed map data from Google, stressing that providing it could pose “serious threat to national security.” ...

A recent update to Google Maps has filled in North Korea – the big, largely blank space that previously lay north of the well-mapped South Korea ...

A map of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, before the addition of crowd-sourced data (left) and after the addition of crowd-sourced data (right.) Google.

North Korea has always been one of the few blind spots in Google Maps’ efforts to detail the world, but the situation is set to get a little better.

For outsiders, there are few good maps of North Korea. Google is trying to change that. Monday night, the search giant updated its maps to include detailed info for North Korea for the first time.

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, m… ...

Melvin, an economist with an unfinished doctoral dissertation on North Korea's monetary system, verifies landmarks he finds on Google Earth by studying maps and documents and by sitting down in ...

Google's request for a detailed map of South Korea for Google Maps has been denied by the government. The decision was made by a joint-committee led by the country's transport ministry and IT ...

This map, uploaded to RedNote on January 28, appears to be North Korea-made and emphasizes the Kim regime's shift away from pro-unification messaging amid tensions with the South.