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What the Glocom scandal tells us about the N.Korean military’s new capabilities

The company's brochures reveal North Korea may be better equipped than we thought

In South Korea, we often use the terms such as “house poor” or “car poor” to describe those who are living in a poor condition after spending too much on a house or a car.

In that sense, North Korea is “WMD poor”, and is still widely using pre-WW2 equipment, after spending a tremendous amount of its national resources upgrading its Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

Until now, many South Korean military experts believed that the Korean People’s Army (KPA) would use the archaic “human-wave strategy” during times of war to overcome the disadvantages coming from its outdated equipment.

But we