This is a satellite photo of the Korean Peninsula at night, taken in October 2006. The bright spots represent lights. While South Korea, particularly the heavily populated area around Seoul, is ablaze in light, North Korea is almost entirely dark due to mandated power outages after 9 p.m. There’s simply not enough electricity to power anything but small portions of Pyongyang, where the leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea live.
You’ve got the same people with the same resource allocation, and yet only the one with the free political and economic systems can manage to provide its citizens with power. Shocking, right? Who’d have thought.
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