You’ve heard of Potemkin villages. North Korea has introduced the Potemkin missile. According to the Hindustan Times:
The weapons displayed on April 15 appear to be a mish-mash of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel components that could never fly together.
Undulating casings on the missiles suggest the metal is too thin to withstand flight. Each missile was slightly different from the others, even though all were supposedly the same make. They don’t even fit the launchers they were carried on.
Two analysts who detail those discrepancies in a paper posted recently on the website Armscontrolwonk.com say there is no doubt that the missiles were mock-ups.
It’s been a bad run for the Jung Un. Taking over after the timely death of his mad father, the pudgier Kim tried scaring the world with an ICBM launch, only to have that missile crash into the sea. He had to apologize for that debacle. Now he’s been caught parading fake missiles. North Korea traffics in selling weapons tech to rogue states, it’s one of the country’s few exports. That’s part of the reason for publicly parading them.
Hey mullah, wanna buy a missile? Not anymore.
North Korea’s collapse may be closer than it looks.
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