He reviewed the tank crews involved in the match and encourage them.
The tankmen who were greatly encouraged by the great brilliant commander's inspection, an expression of his deep trust, alongside their glorious colors on the training ground, extended deep gratitude to him.
After reviewing the tank crews, he mounted a new-type main battle tank, took the control lever and drove the tank himself, adding to the high militant spirit of the tankmen and instilling in them thoroughgoing outlooks on the enemy and war.
All the officers and men of the tank units raised stormy cheers of hurrah, looking up to the invincible and iron-willed brilliant commander.
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/35dcef68b38b7556f7eb3ca1828d39d7.kcmsf
mirror https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1710400279-521738616/respected-comrade-kim-jong-un-guides-tankmens-training-match/
Its funny to me that driving a tank with your head sticking out the hatch makes you look like such a huge goober while at the same time driving a tank with your head sticking out of the hatch makes you feel freaking awesome.
The exact opposite effect to standing out the command hatch.
Everyone: "what a commanding figure they pose, nobly astride their steel horse of war, a modern knight!"
You: "what a fucking idiot i am in the do nothing chair standing around as the tallest thing in 5km in any direction, saying "please mr sniper, the officer is right here!"
Lying western media is doubting that Kim Jong Un drove the tank himself.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-guided-military-demonstration-involving-tanks-kcna-says-2024-03-13/
What, they don't think it's feasible he could have just learned to drive a tank at some point? Kim is constantly photographed around Army stuff, would it be too hard to take the time to be instructed in driving a tank back and forth?
Apparently it was "common knowledge" for decades in Japan and occupied Korea that Kim Il-Sung was actually some other dude impersonating a veteran guerilla with that name. Unhinged conspiracy theories are the stock-in-trade of western-aligned coverage of the DPRK.
Edit: By the way, if you look this up, you'll still see popular media lending a lot of credence to this claim, because no lie is too pathetic to be asserted about the DPRK today.
Edit: By the way, if you look this up, you'll still see popular media lending a lot of credence to this claim, because no lie is too pathetic to be asserted about the DPRK today.
I was gonna say they still do push this claim even today. Plenty of trashy defector shows in the ROK will occasionally talk like they're discussing the old monarchy in regards to the DPRK in the sense they're saying every Kim is some kind of illegitimate pretender to the throne and keeps the kingdom together with a web of lies that would unravel if the people knew their great leader was a descended from some peasant thief and not the brave warlord he stole the name from.
Although that isn't as popular as making defectors eat food and react to foreign shit like KFC, Texan BBQ, or burgers or some shit. Or shit like how they love kpop music and that kids who listen to it will get their entire family thrown in prison for 40 years when they're caught listening to it.
You know, outrageous claims that the thing you like is illegal and will get you killed over there so you should be happier here kind of shit.
At least from my understanding those kinds of shows aren't as popular as they were 10+ years ago.
Lol did nobody notice when some other guy shows up and starts to act like their war hero friend?
how much harder than any random car could a tank be to drive around a flat field when you're surrounded and supported by dedicated tank crews? It's got to be one of the lowest energy, lowest stakes conspiracy theories. Might as well claim a photo shoot of him eating a hot dog was faked too.
A modern tank? Might even be using an xbox controller. If this was a ww2 tank? Then the controls would be the most ridiculous bs you would have ever seen.
lmao we teach meatheads who only passed highschool because they got lenient grading how to drive them
In North Korea, the military doesn’t have enough resources to build functioning tanks. They build a tank shell, and inside are 10 malnourished soldiers pushing it around with their feet.
Love it
DPRK English press releases are so corny in an awesome way
His hair looks cool on the last photo.
Show
I hope he stays healthy so DPRK doesn't suffer destabilization with the west being as bloodthirsty as they are now. :(
His hair looks cool on the last photo.
That's a good thing because everyone must have that same haircut, or so I'm told
Came to ask this, I would love to know the design process and the why behind all the bits of equipment
Scout/combined arms armored cavalry stuff. Likely high resolution periscope with night vision capabilities, laser for range finding and painting a target for guided missiles. Anti-aircraft rocket launcher tube stuck to the side there, empty. Armored ammo can for the 40mm automatic grenade launcher. (Smart).
Basic smoke grenade launchers, reactive armor blocks and anti rocket grates on the back of the tank body and turret (where the engine and main gun ammo are located, respectively).
DPRK flag.
what's not pictured is earlier North Korean tank manufacturer 보잉 (/bɔɪŋ/) had an incident with a side door popping off during a witch hunt. The entire driving crew and the maintenance crew were executed and their families have been forced to work in the salt mines.I'm a tank dweeb but I can't quite figure out which tank the KPAGF has now. It looks like a mix of Abrams and a T-90M characteristics. Is this their new domestic tank now?
If Wikipedia is to be believed (yeah, I know), the tank has no official name yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2020_tank
North Korea so dystopian, only 9 of those tanks are real. The rest are card board on top of chunks of Dear Leader's swiss cheese stash.
Speaks 3 foreign languages (English, French, German)
Trained pianist
Apparently quite good at basketball
Certified fighter jet pilot with 100+ logged flight hours
Drives a fucking tank
Common wisdom holds that this image ruined this guy's presidential run.
