Tuesday, December 5, 2017

North Korea Tampered Its Missile Launch Pictures


Newsweek: North Korea Probably Tampered With Its Missile Launch Pictures

North Korea has tampered with the photos showing the latest missile test launch, an analyst said after inspecting the images the regime released last week.

According to Dr Marco Langbroek, Space Situational Awareness consultant at Leiden University in the Netherlands, the stars in some of North Korea’s images don’t match, suggesting the regime tampered with the photos before publication. He found that two images that were shot from the same viewpoint seemed to display different constellations.

“Two images from clearly same viewpoint, but dramatically different star backgrounds! Orion (Southeast) versus Andromeda (Northwest)!” the scientist wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

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WNU Editor: This academic has a sharp eye.

More News On Reports That North Korea Tampered Its Missile Launch Pictures

North Korea missile: Inconsistencies spotted in Hwasong-15 images -- CNN
North Korea 'must have tampered with photos of latest missile test because STAR CONSTELLATIONS in the background are incorrect', claims academic -- Daily Mail
N. Korea Missile Launch Photos Digitally Edited, Show the Wrong Star Constellations -- Al-Bawaba
North Korea May Have Put Fake Stars In Its Missile Photos, But It's Not Clear Why -- The Daily Caller

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Maybe the one picture makes for better "Rah, rah, rah" pictures for internal consumption.

It seems the important thing is that they made altitude. That leaves reentry, but the backers of North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan seem to give them everything else.