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posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the dud-photo-dud-bomb dept.

North Korean TV appears to show early 'A-bomb photo'

North Korean TV footage of an arms and munitions industry conference appears to show the country's former leader Kim Jong-il inspecting one of the country's first ever atomic bombs.

A 30-minute bulletin showing the 12 December conference in the capital Pyongyang has North Korea watchers agog at the picture's appearance in the conference hall.

The photograph, never before seen in the West, is visible for only a few seconds as the camera sets the scene for the industry conference, attended by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, the son of the late Kim Jong-il. It hangs among others showing North Korea's "achievements" in arms production, alongside scale models of ballistic missiles.

Because of its fleeting appearance from a distance, experts are holding fire on a positive identification of the device as an atomic weapon. But the photograph has notable similarities to recent photographs of Kim Jong-un inspecting the country's first (claimed) hydrogen bomb.


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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:07PM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:07PM (#609699) Journal

    The first photo of il looking at a globe is so blurry that it be a globe of the earth for all we know. Next we have a photo of un showing a bunch of missile stuff with some blurry posters followed by a news anchor lady. The most laughable photo is un next to what looks like a cylindrical Aluminum device sitting on flimsy wooden supports attached to another aluminum cylinder via a wire harness. This is their supposed H-bomb. There is nothing else in the room save for another cylinder which could have been the container the device or prop was transported in. It looks so devoid of parts and wiring that it has to be a prop. And the wooden stand with thin sheet metal brackets is a dead giveaway that this thing has very little mass indicating once again, that it's a prop. Calling it an atomic bomb is a real stretch. So much a stretch in fact that I question why such an article was written. I smell propaganda. One propaganda spinning another propaganda piece. I also think I smell war hawks.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:19PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:19PM (#609790)

    > I smell propaganda.

    It's for internal consumption regardless of authenticity.
    For external propaganda, they rely on our seismographs.