North Korea 'photoshopped Kim Jong-un submarine missile pictures'

Reuters ^ | 20 May 2015 | Andrew Marszal

[presidio9]

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.

A photo on state TV showed a missile high in the sky leaving a trail of white smoke, whereas other photos from state media showed no white smoke, suggesting the two photos were of different missiles with different propulsion systems, Mr Schiller and Mr Schmucker said.

James Winnefeld, a US navy admiral, on Tuesday said the country's "clever video editors and spinmeisters" had disguised the fact that Pyongyang is still "many years" from developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

He told an audience at the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington that the isolated country may still be years away from developing the technology.

"They have not gotten as far as their clever video editors and spinmeisters would -SNIP-

[US_MilitaryRules]

I guess this photoshopper will get the same treatment as the last General who fell asleep at one of un’s speeches!

[Dog]

Someone will get him before its over with...dude is like a spree killer...its going to be get him before he gets you.

[Impy]

What a bunch of freaking clowns.

Jr. ain’t half the golfer his daddy was either.