Ghost City: 39.75N, 126.31E

By the green river, there is a grey city.  The city, I  infer from this map, is called  Tokchon, and it lies on the headwaters of the Taedong, above Pyongyang, and above the slave-worked coal mines of Camps 14 and 18. 

The city is coated in soot, a deathly blanket reminiscent of scenes we haven’t seen since the fall of Ceausescu’s Romania.    Click for a full-size image.

Search the streets for signs of life, and you will find few.  I searched for five minutes before I even saw a truck.  In places, the shadows seem to show that the buildings are vacant. 

There are other cities like this, too.  If you have Google Earth, pay a visit to 42.5N, 140.3E, and you will find this place.