North Korea: 2012-2016

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North Korean functionaries are claiming that their country now possesses missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. This reminds me of an anecdote from a fellow who was brought to my undergraduate institution to interview for an at–the–time recently created position for a forensic anthropologist. He had previously been affiliated with a program which sought to identify and exchange human remains with the DPRK. He said his interactions with North Korean colleagues had been very good and that those guys were invariably professional and even amiable. But he also had a story of being taken to a North Korean museum which housed an exhibit to the nation’s space program which included a photo of the Space Shuttle with a North Korean flag crudely Photoshopped onto its side. I think it safe to assume that the DPRK’s ballistic missile capabilities are in the same general neighborhood.