Abstract

<strong></strong>Enabling Transparency Through Technology? Non-Governmental Satellite Imagery Analysis of North Korea<strong> </strong>

Highlights

  • The first remote sensing satellites were launched in the 1960s by the U.S and Soviet militaries as one central element of their space race during the cold war

  • The privatization and advancement of satellite technology have led to novel implications for international politics

  • Applications like Google Earth and commercial satellite technology allow spaces to be seen that governments wanted to keep secret from civil society [2]

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Introduction

The first remote sensing satellites were launched in the 1960s by the U.S and Soviet militaries as one central element of their space race during the cold war. The increasing availability of commercial and open source satellite imagery has begun to challenge governments’ interpretational sovereignty by opening up spaces for new expert groups to play an influential role in security discourses that is based on their “authoritative claim to policy-relevant knowledge” [3,4,5]. Indicative for this is the growing amount of international organizations, freelance experts and non-governmental organizations (NGO) that use commercial satellite imagery to augment assessments of global security and human rights issues

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