North Korea boasts about its nuclear weapons program by releasing photos and videos of its missiles. But in them are tiny clues to their true capability. A team of U.S. analysts, working outside the government, shows how they decode these images to determine when North Korea is bluffing – and when it is showing true power. A group of analysts at the Middlebury Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation studies in Monterey, Calif., are finding amazingly detailed information about North Korea’s military capabilities. They closely study the propaganda photos and videos put out by the regime, and apply to them new tools such as satellite imagery and 3-D mapping.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 05, 2017 09:22 UTC