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If they built this facility in a year and a half, building infrastructure won't be a problem - at least for them to claim. I doubt many kids will die in North
by electromagnetic 16y ago
If they built this facility in a year and a half, building infrastructure won't be a problem - at least for them to claim.
I doubt many kids will die in North Korea. They've already demonstrated a nuclear or near-nuclear (IE it fissled rather than popped) capability. With this facility, if they've been producing for a while then they're fully-nuclear for sure and could be striving for thermonuclear.
I seriously doubt the intelligence of our leaders, but I'm sure there'll be a military coup before actual soldiers land in NK while nukes are potentially still present.
With the way North Korea is going I wouldn't doubt their government putting nukes inside their major cities.
- ck2 16y agoHave you seen the North Korea vs South Korea at night photo? http://i.imgur.com/IsWh1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IsWh1.jpg All the resources are going into their war machine. If could/would build infrastructure, it would have been done long ago. There won't be a coup, they are all brainwashed.
- icegreentea 16y agoI think a plant for refining weapons grade nuclear material counts as their war machine. Granted, the rest of their infrastructure sucks, but I don't think their dumb enough to build a plant without power. And they do know how to keep power running. Does anyone actually think the Great Leader lives in some un-lit hovel?
- mnemonicsloth 16y agoTechnically, the Great Leader doesn't live anywhere. He died in 1994, although he retains his official status as head of the North Korean state. He is presently located in a museum near Pyongyang. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung#Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung#Death The Dear Leader, now, he's still alive. He's less accessible than his father... but he probably spends more time underground.
- runjake 16y agoThis is some sort of doctored photo. Here is an actual photo from a reputable source: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/images/dprk-dmsp-dark.jpg http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/images/dprk-dms...
- julianz 16y agoAgreed that the other photo is dodgy, but there's not actually that much difference between it and yours. North Korea at night is largely dark, either way.
- runjake 16y agoThe photo you posted indicates only one metropolitan area (Pyongyang). In the GlobalSecurity photo, there are several metros lit up (one speck of light from space is considerable amount of people).
- varjag 16y agoThe photos can be dramatically different depending on year or a time of day. Street lighting in DPRK is not organic or municipal, and they often have been short on energy.
- chopsueyar 16y agoIs that photo generated from the WOPR?
- electromagnetic 16y agoWhether they can or can't build the infrastructure means nothing. They built this plant in 18 months (allegedly), what do you think is going to come up at the UN? They've got two responses - 1) no this has always been there, your inspectors are incompetent. As everybody, even you, knows NK doesn't have the ability to do this kind of project normally (IE outside funding our last ditch effort - regardless it's out of the norm) or 2) Yes we built this plant in 18 months to enrich uranium, the power plants are under construction now and the grid will be ready for when the plant commences operation. This is so out of character that the response is either "yeah right dumbass, like that happened" or "dumbass, the rest is easy".