If they can't even build fake missiles properly, what are the odds they can build real ones?

I would have used an amusing tag.

Raging Thespian: So when the hell does the revolution happen in that pathetic rat hole of a country already?

It's hard to revolt when you're eating roots and grass, just barely alive.

/"Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
//"I know, they stink on ice!"

reminds me of the ol' Cold War era Russian ICBM carriers. Except those actually worked.

Wow, they really did a good photoshop job on that Power Wheel with a mounted Estes rocket.

ihatedumbpeople: reminds me of the ol' Cold War era Russian ICBM carriers. Except those actually worked.

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Do you know what those things can do? Suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro!

Did anyone else notice the "slimmed down" painting of Doughboy Leader in the background?

My morbid curiosity always wonders what would happen if the shiat hit the fan with N.Korea and just how much of their army would pour over the border. It's a scenario I really would never want to see, but the curiosity of how a war would go in present day makes me wonder.

ihatedumbpeople: reminds me of the ol' Cold War era Russian ICBM carriers. Except those actually worked.

Well... Maybe. Since the fall of the USSR a number of their former missile technicians and commanders have not expressed a high confidence in the readiness of the systems they oversaw.

Magic Missile: A bolt of pure energy from the caster's fingertips. It strikes a target automatically, with multiple missiles launched at higher levels. The spell's ability to cause automatic damage makes it one of the most-used spells.

but it's the thought that counts, right??

PRK needs to get squished.

I remember being in the 8th grade, seeing the photos from the Cuban Missile Crisis and asking the teacher "What?! That's what almost led to nuclear war?! How do we know they weren't inflatable pool toys put there to scare us?!"

Of course, I know they weren't, but I always kinda wondered why not. If anyone ever actually launched one of those things all hell would break loose, so you've got to figure they were more for intimidation. In that case, why not make the things out of plywood and just leave them around for spy planes to snap photos of.

/I know, I'm a dumbass.
//So are the Koreans if they thought anyone would fall for this

The terrifying thing to consider is whether the NK leadership knows these are fakes. If the military brass is just throwing something out there to save their own skin, but glorious leader thinks that he haz long range strike capability...

Jake Havechek: Magic Missile: A bolt of pure energy from the caster's fingertips. It strikes a target automatically, with multiple missiles launched at higher levels. The spell's ability to cause automatic damage makes it one of the most-used spells.

have you seen the youtube of the guy holding a roman candle shouting "magic missile! magic missile! magic missile!" while dressed up like some D&D elf?

it didnt help the LARP gamers cause in defeating the "omg theyre total tools" image.

bim1154: My morbid curiosity always wonders what would happen if the shiat hit the fan with N.Korea and just how much of their army would pour over the border. It's a scenario I really would never want to see, but the curiosity of how a war would go in present day makes me wonder.

The most frightening part wouldn't be the army but rather the artillery. They could use conventional artillery to kill hundreds of thousands in Seoul before we could disable it.

Savage Belief: Did anyone else notice the "slimmed down" painting of Doughboy Leader in the background?

That's Kim Il Sung, the guy who started it all.

Father_Jack: Jake Havechek: Magic Missile: A bolt of pure energy from the caster's fingertips. It strikes a target automatically, with multiple missiles launched at higher levels. The spell's ability to cause automatic damage makes it one of the most-used spells.

have you seen the youtube of the guy holding a roman candle shouting "magic missile! magic missile! magic missile!" while dressed up like some D&D elf?

it didnt help the LARP gamers cause in defeating the "omg theyre total tools" image.

Know what? I'm 34 and still get together on a fairly regular basis to play regular, tabletop D&D (it's tougher now that everyone is married and has kids, but we do still play). Even those of use dorks who played regular D&D looked down on the LARPers.

bim1154: My morbid curiosity always wonders what would happen if the shiat hit the fan with N.Korea and just how much of their army would pour over the border. It's a scenario I really would never want to see, but the curiosity of how a war would go in present day makes me wonder.

All of them would pour over, mostly to get something to eat, but they'd all come running.

Father_Jack: Jake Havechek: Magic Missile: A bolt of pure energy from the caster's fingertips. It strikes a target automatically, with multiple missiles launched at higher levels. The spell's ability to cause automatic damage makes it one of the most-used spells.

have you seen the youtube of the guy holding a roman candle shouting "magic missile! magic missile! magic missile!" while dressed up like some D&D elf?

it didnt help the LARP gamers cause in defeating the "omg theyre total tools" image.

"I have boots of escaping!"

Makes me think of that scene in Reno 911! where they bust the LARPers.

UtileDysfunktion: PRK needs to get squished.

yep.

question is, why dont the south koreans seem to think so?

i guess everyone's just waiting for it to implode on its own, and then do so without massive bloodshed on either side, and not risk losing seoul. and if you were the s. korean govt, would you want to deal with the cost of reunifying the place? would make the german reunification look like a cake walk in comparison.

the north koreans *do* have nukes, and they can hit seoul with it. why risk it?

they bought theyre tickets. they knew what they were getting into. i say, let em crash.

meanmutton: bim1154: My morbid curiosity always wonders what would happen if the shiat hit the fan with N.Korea and just how much of their army would pour over the border. It's a scenario I really would never want to see, but the curiosity of how a war would go in present day makes me wonder.

The most frightening part wouldn't be the army but rather the artillery. They could use conventional artillery to kill hundreds of thousands in Seoul before we could disable it.

My father fought in the Korean war. He didn't talk about any of it till the last few years he was alive and what he did talk about put visions of "what the fark is lurking in that dark closet" in my head. It would be a bloody farking thing if it ever did happen.

I like that the numbers on the side of the missile arent in korean. Wonder who they're for?

Also, it makes me lol that they felt the missile needed like a 10 digit identifier... like they have that many of them.

bim1154: My morbid curiosity always wonders what would happen if the shiat hit the fan with N.Korea and just how much of their army would pour over the border. It's a scenario I really would never want to see, but the curiosity of how a war would go in present day makes me wonder.

I think large parts of their army would pour over the border and exchange their guns for food.

Say what you want about America, but we don't parade our nukes down Times Square.

Spawn more Overlords!

Beerbarian: The terrifying thing to consider is whether the NK leadership knows these are fakes. If the military brass is just throwing something out there to save their own skin, but glorious leader thinks that he haz long range strike capability...

Interesting. I never thought of that possibility.

Anyway, I feel horribly sorry for the people of North Korea. It's a miserable place to be, and I don't see much hope in sight.

SniperJoe: ihatedumbpeople: reminds me of the ol' Cold War era Russian ICBM carriers. Except those actually worked.

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Sees what you did there.

/even with the eye patch

Alonjar: I like that the numbers on the side of the missile arent in korean. Wonder who they're for?

Spoken like a true American.

nekom: Raging Thespian: So when the hell does the revolution happen in that pathetic rat hole of a country already?

It isn't like the middle east where they have the internets, facebook, twitter and the like. The place is an information black hole with a culture of fear and paranoia with roots so deep I doubt we'll ever see a revolution there. If they ever step over the line and escalate to a full blown war, things will change, but not before an awful lot of bloodshed.

Those poor people are seriously farked.

And I've read the economic impact of trying to actually reunite the two Koreas at this point, with the vast gap between them in terms of technology, society, education, culture, all of it, would be many, many times worse than the German reunification. Even if the DPRK was made free today... I think it would take many decades before any semblance of normalcy would be reached, nevermind the tremendous drag on the South, which I'm sure most South Koreans would not be very pleased about.

It really is fascinating to watch and think about... Like the world's largest unethical psychological experiment.

meanmutton: Know what? I'm 34 and still get together on a fairly regular basis to play regular, tabletop D&D (it's tougher now that everyone is married and has kids, but we do still play). Even those of use dorks who played regular D&D looked down on the LARPers.

Yet the SCA trundles merrily on. Somehow they don't seem to be considered LARPers.

Jake Havechek: Father_Jack: Jake Havechek: Magic Missile: A bolt of pure energy from the caster's fingertips. It strikes a target automatically, with multiple missiles launched at higher levels. The spell's ability to cause automatic damage makes it one of the most-used spells.

have you seen the youtube of the guy holding a roman candle shouting "magic missile! magic missile! magic missile!" while dressed up like some D&D elf?

it didnt help the LARP gamers cause in defeating the "omg theyre total tools" image.

"I have boots of escaping!"

Makes me think of that scene in Reno 911! where they bust the LARPers.

It was only the one who actually shot the guy in the chest with a longbow during an argument.

FTFA: "It remains unknown if they were designed this way to confuse foreign analysts, or if the designers simply did some sloppy work."

This is North Korea, they think the rest of the world is as brainwashed as their starving people. We were supposed to be afraid that these are his secret weapons that could kill the whole United States......so you know give more money so he can be a fat rich bi@tch, starve his people, and pretend that he doesn't have a small penis.

auralpleasure: SniperJoe: ihatedumbpeople: reminds me of the ol' Cold War era Russian ICBM carriers. Except those actually worked.

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Sees what you did there.

/even with the eye patch

It's a dikfer.

Mel Brooks and Harvey Keitel approve

Alonjar: I like that the numbers on the side of the missile arent in korean. Wonder who they're for?

Correct me if I'm wrong but. . .numbers are the same in every language?

nekom: Raging Thespian: So when the hell does the revolution happen in that pathetic rat hole of a country already?

It isn't like the middle east where they have the internets, facebook, twitter and the like. The place is an information black hole with a culture of fear and paranoia with roots so deep I doubt we'll ever see a revolution there. If they ever step over the line and escalate to a full blown war, things will change, but not before an awful lot of bloodshed.

Those poor people are seriously farked.

No shiat.

Have a read of this article Link
The guy who wrote the book sent his mother and brother to the executioner by telling the guards that they planned to escape. They're conditioned to betray even their own blood to protect the state.

We now know what happened to the prop missile from Spies Like Us.

SocraticIrony: Alonjar: I like that the numbers on the side of the missile arent in korean. Wonder who they're for?

Correct me if I'm wrong but. . .numbers are the same in every language?

No. Asians use weird squigly lines and shiat.

/America... fark yeah!