Is the North Korean Military Better Than We Think?

For years, North Korea's army looked like a bit of a joke, grainy footage of marching troops in outdated uniforms tanks, older than their crew, rifles hadn't changed since the Cold War. The world saw a relic, and stopped taking it seriously. And that was a bit of a mistake, because in the last decade, everything has changed.

The gear is newer, the missiles are faster, the tactics are smarter, and beneath the parades in the propaganda, the Korean People's Army might just be turning it to something far more capable and far more dangerous than anyone expected. So what exactly has been going on above the DMC? Well, don't go anywhere, because we're about to tell you.

As best we can, it's North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom. North Korea's military shortcomings are once-garing. After the Korean warp, Yang had relied heavily on Soviet and Chinese hand-me- downs and their own local adaptations thereof to equip itself.