North Korea: 2012-2016

**AdamG** · 05-13-2015

OSINT photo analysis.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...pm_world_pop_b

According to Greg Scarlatoiu and Joseph Bermudez Jr., the authors of HRNK's report, the the antiaircraft guns in the picture appear to be six ZPU-4s, Soviet-made heavy weaponry first used during the Korean war. They are positioned about 100 feet from the standing figures. A few feet behind the antiaircraft guns, there appear to be a line of troops and/or equipment, the report notes, with buses and trucks at the site suggesting that people had been bused in to watch whatever was happening.

Shout-out for Joe Bermudez. Good job.
http://www.kpajournal.com/about/

**davidbfpo** · 05-15-2015

Adam Cathcart comments on the leadership's problem:

But given what we know about how Kim operates and how he wishes to be perceived, it is more than possible that Hyon’s basic lack of interest in the personality cult is what led to his downfall.

Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ong-un-rumour?

**AdamG** · 05-21-2015

More shennanigans from Lil'Kim

Photographs showing Kim Jong-un proudly watching as a North Korean missile was launched from an underwater submarine were manipulated by state propagandists, experts claimed on Tuesday.

German aerospace experts said photos of the launch were "strongly modified", including reflections of the missile exhaust flame in the water which did not line up with the missile itself.

"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," Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker, of Schmucker Technologie, told Reuters.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...gh6927?stb=red