Alert: North Korea Now Capable Of Using Photoshop To Launch Missiles From Submarines
from the shop-skillz dept
Whenever our friends in Pyongyang decide to troll the planet with one of their hilariously bad propaganda pieces, it always makes me wonder just how serious the North Korean regime is about this whole war thing. I mean, using video game footage and music to threaten 'Merica? C'mon, son. And those photoshopped photo-ops of your human-chicken-dumpling leader just don't inspire much confidence in the country's technological capabilities. But it's when North Korea combines war and fun-bad photoshopping that the real fun begins.Take the country's recent press brag, for instance, in which North Korea announces that they've managed to launch a missile from a submarine.
![source: imgur.com](https://i.imgur.com/5tqrTgG.jpg)
Experts, it appears, aren't all that impressed with the photo. That was particularly the case when the state-run Pyongyang press circulated other photos of the launch that were complete with columns of smoke from the missile, columns of smoke conspicuously absent from the initial photo that was circulated above.
As Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker, of Schmucker Technologie, told Reuters, “Considering the track record of North Korean deceptions, it seems sensible to assume that any North Korean SLBM [submarine-launched ballistic missile] capability is still a very long time in the future, if it will ever surface.”And, so, sadly, the only thing this launch report from North Korea tells us is that they still haven't gotten photoshop down. Oh well. If they ever did get into an actual shooting war again, I suppose they could always just photoshop themselves into some kind of victory pose. Given how often their progress with weapons technology turns out to be non-progress at photo-bullshitting, such a war is probably a remote possibility. Several of the commenters over at Gawker offered to help them out, of course, though this one is probably my favorite.
What the column-less photo lacked in smoke, it made up for with weird, poorly placed ocean smudges. That reddish patch of water you see to the left of the missile? That’s supposed to be the rocket’s reflection.
![source: imgur.com](https://i.imgur.com/EGVuCFL.jpg)
Call in Mario Marine!
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Getting it all wrong
Their efforts in showing off their Photoshop skills(or lack thereof) aren't meant to show off weapons they don't have, they are the weapons.
No weapon is perfect at first, and as such it makes sense for these early attempts to be only chuckle worthy, but once they make the breakthrough, and truly grasp the essence of humor(something NK is famous for, as I'm sure you all know) then other, more primitive countries who are still reliant on physical weapons will undoubtedly be brought to their knees in tears of laughter, leaving them wide open for conquest.
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Silly theory time:
After all, if Kim Jong-Un needs to be photoshopped into these pictures, it implies that he needs to be elsewhere doing something else, possibly something unsavory...
...Or perhaps I should just apply a variation of Hanlon's Razor; never attribute to genius that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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It couldn't be just me?
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Gotta love that pun
Get it? submarine-launched, surface.
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But what I'd really love is proof that NK actually has a submarine capable of accommodating a ballistic missile. ATTACK submarine weapons don't launch straight up.
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In Pyongyang maybe yes heh. The guys that made the video were clear in the 'faq' question that the regime did not let them film the things that were not absolutely sparkling.
I think the jury is still out on whether loosening the embargo on Cuba will result in weakening the dictatorship there.
Yeah, only time will tell.
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Or even worse, combining the two:
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/eh1jr5/kim-possible
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Nothing new here. Kim Jong Un is just following in his fathers (Kim Jong Il) footsteps, as clearly seen in his fathers prize winning film (here is the trailer, dubbed in english).
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Oh, North Korea....
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