Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Inspects New IRBM
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R, bottom) inspects the launch of a Hwasongpho-16B, a new type of intermediate-range solid-fueled ballistic missile equipped with a newly-developed hypersonic gliding warhead, on April 2, 2024, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the following day. “The hypersonic glide warhead, separated from the missile after its launch towards the northeast at an army unit’s training field on the outskirts of Pyongyang, reached its first peak at the height of 101.1 kilometers and the second 72.3 kilometers while making 1 000-km-long flight as scheduled to accurately hit the waters of the East Sea,” the agency reported. (Yonhap)
That’s a bad translation. Actually, it started off as a mechanical rice picker and snowblower for Kim Fatty III’s planned farms in Indiana.
IRBM means Indiana Rice-picker and Blower Machine…
Also, if was designed to operate automatically, kind of a “fire and forget” sort of device, so the farmer had more time to tell his neighbors about how great it is to live in North Korea.