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North Korea says its new spy satellite photographed White House, Pentagon (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/world

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After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too.

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[–] Tattorack 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes Kim... Yes... Very good. Congratulations on achieving what every other country could do for the past 30 or more years. I'm sure he's feeling very accomplished...

[–] foggy 16 points 1 year ago

Im thinking closer to 50 lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

And like he wasn't already getting pictures from the Chinese and the Soviets, lol.

[–] Doorbook 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is impressive if they didn't get help from Russia or China.

Most of these technologies are not easy to create for nation without education and resources.

NK is saying they are progressing and that I find better than being dependent on other countries.

[–] Madison420 2 points 1 year ago

They're known to just kidnap useful people, you don't need much to do that.

[–] SCB 2 points 1 year ago

NK is saying they are progressing and that I find better than being dependent on other countries.

In what universe would this be a good thing?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, they weren’t even trying until pretty recently.

I feel like most people have no clue most of the history of NK. They pretty much fell out of most peoples heads after the Korean War. They didn’t even start trying to build nukes until after Bush essentially threatened to invade them with his axis of evil speech. They were significantly more developed than the south until either the 80s or 90s, and if we hadn’t threatened them to where they feel the need for constant Sabre-rattling, it’s unlikely that they would have ever attempted to get up a spy satellite, because prior to our efforts, they were focused primarily on development, not military or espionage.

[–] radix 8 points 1 year ago

NK had nukes in the early 90s.

https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/24/north.korea.carter.backstory/index.html

Carter's 1994 trip to Pyongyang was successful in defusing the first North Korean nuclear crisis, paving the way for the 1994 Agreed Framework in which North Korea pledged to give up its nuclear weapons in return for aid.