Kim Jong-un claims 'photoshopped' North Korea missile launch was 'eye-opening miracle'
Kim Jong-un claims 'photoshopped' North Korea missile launch was 'eye-opening miracle'
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  • 승인 2015.05.29 01:31
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German aerospace experts said the reflection of the missile on water, circled, did not line up Photo: KCNA/EPA

Mr Kim hosted a gathering of the scientists and technicians who were behind the test that was announced with great fanfare earlier this month, according to the North's official KCNA news agency.

He congratulated them for producing an "eye-opening miracle" and a "historical event" that had left the country with a powerful strategic weapon, it reported.

The report follows claims by German and US experts last week that photographs showing the test launch had been manipulated by state propagandists.

German aerospace experts said photos of the launch were "strongly modified", including reflections of the missile exhaust flame in the water which did not line up with the missile itself.

There are discrepancies between photos purportedly showing the same missile launch

James Winnefeld, a US navy admiral, said the country's "clever video editors and spinmeisters" had disguised the fact that Pyongyang is still "many years" from developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

North Korea, heavily sanctioned by the United States and United Nations for its missile and nuclear tests, said on May 8 it had successfully conducted an underwater test-fire which, if true, would indicate progress in its pursuit of building missile-equipped submarines.

It published photographs of Kim Jong-un watching as missiles were apparently fired from a submarine beneath the ocean surface.

How North Korea may (or may not) have fooled the world, in pictures

But North Korea, which regularly threatens to destroy the United States, had a track record of offering faked proof to claim significant advances in missile technology, Mr Schiller and Mr Schmucker said, such as poorly built mockups of missiles on display at military parades in 2012 and 2013.

Yonhap News TV news program showing images of the missile launch (AP)

Whether the test was exaggerated or not, South Korea said on Tuesday it had requested a UN investigation into whether it constituted a sanctions violation.

Current UN resolutions ban North Korea from developing or using ballistic missile technology. "We've sent a letter to the UN Sanctions Committee," foreign ministry spokesman Noh Kwang-Il told reporters.

By Andrew Marszal / The Telegraph


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