[T]here has been a strategic devotion of resources and emphasis on nurturing scientific and technological talent since Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, said Mr Panda. North Korea’s Kim Chaek University of Technology ranked eighth in the world at the International Collegiate Programming Contest last year, beating top institutions such as Oxford and Harvard [...]
The power of Juche coding :party-parrot:
Their advances in nuclear weapons are meaningless.
Their advances in juche necromancy, however, will revolutionize the world.
On a more serious level, these advances are not surprising. They're evolutionary steps, which every nuclear power goes through, and anyone who says they're surprised might not be as much of an expert as they say they are. Interestingly the article doesn't point out the weaknesses still in place (I know, fear mongering Western article fear mongers). You don't need the world's largest road mobile ICBM if you have an effective SSBN, and there is zero chance of NK deploying one in the next 20 years. The air force and ADA systems are museum pieces. Basically the strategic rocket forces are the guarantor of the nation, and that's all they really need.
This graph half way down the article is titled "North Korea weapons tests continue despite coronavirus". Well, yeah, that's because they beat the virus.
It's always funny to read western news about DPKR and them developing nukes as if SK and the US don't arrange invasion drills every other year ramping up for a full scale war.
Yeah, they figured out the best way to defend themselves is to make damn sure that if they get invaded then the countries invading them suffer a lot. Nukes are a really good way of doing that. I'd say it's not rocket science but that'd be a terrible joke.
sometimes I forget how imperialist Western news outlets are until I decide to read one
Yeah that was a lot of words to say that they're actually human beings capable of thinking, doing science and building stuff.
