New North Korean Missile Is Called Into Question
Source: New York Times
April has not been a great month for North Koreas image-makers.
First, they invited dozens of journalists to chronicle the 100th anniversary of the birth of the countrys revered founder, Kim Il-sung, only to see their signature event the launching of a satellite go bust.
Now, a pair of German missile experts have gone public with evidence suggesting that new missiles that the North rolled out with much pomp at a parade just days later were mock-ups, and clumsy ones at that.
After a close analysis of photographs from the parade, the missile experts, Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker, found what they said were tell-tale signs of fakery. The warheads surface, they wrote in a paper posted on a respected arms control Web site, is undulated, as if a thin metal sheet was fixed onto a simple inner frame. The missiles were slightly different from each other, with covers mounted horizontally on one missile and vertically on another, and they did not even fit the launchers they were carried on, the analysts said.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/world/asia/new-north-korean-missile-is-called-into-question.html
cgnick
(59 posts)the people that made the missiles will be executed.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)North Korea has got to be the most insanely backwards country on the planet, and yet pretending they're on the cutting edge. It's crazy.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)and show him the pics coming out of his 1950's nation.
Really sit him down and say... look at this 1985 Nintendo! Isn't that awesome! We had that shit in '85! Get the fuck over yourself and join the world, end the hate of your own ignorance.
Ter
(4,281 posts)Bad example, for that I'd give him a high five and play some Contra with him.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)I loved it myself.
However, it's generations beyond what he has