On the heels of yesterday’s post on the strangeness of the Cold War, here’s an image from today’s Foreign Policy website that is replete with weirdness and scariness.
This image, from a July 2013 parade, shows North Korean special forces troops wearing chest packs with garish radiation symbols. This may just be Nork posturing - the packs could just be dummies stuffed with old newspaper, as one commentator has suggested. Or they may be man-carried dirty bombs, a resurfacing of old Cold War research on radiological warfare. If I was one of these guys, and I was actually wearing a dirty bomb on my chest, I’m not sure I’d be grinning and waving inanely.
4 comments:
I've just painted some of these guys but no dirty bombs, might have to get out the green stuff!
Au contraire, ny dear Padre, if I was part of a NK military parade, I'd be waving and smiling like you wouldn't believe!
Fran: I'd love to see those conversions - what special rules would you give for man-packed dirty bombs?
Thomas - very true, mate, very true. Like the penguins in Madagascar say, just smile and wave, boys, just smile and wave.
maybe those are their NBC suits?
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