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 ...

The map of the North Korean capital offers more details than other parts of the country, including the names of streets and the location of the square named after the country's late founder, Kim ...

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 ...

But today we are changing that with the addition of more detailed maps of North Korea in Google Maps,” said senior product manager of Google Map Maker Jayanth Mysore in a blog post.

Until now North Korea was pretty much a blank canvas to users of Google’s “Map Maker”, which creates maps from data that is provided by the public and fact-checked in a similar process to ...