Since North Korea has no oil production of its own, military commanders are understandably reluctant to waste jet fuel. Every precious drop must be obtained from the DPRK's increasingly irritated regional allies so Nork air force training has an embarrassing tendency to rely on toy planes and scale models. Here's a picture of what that looks like:
Kim Jong Un orders North Korean pilots to prepare for carrier attacks - praises pilots' 'scientific' and 'artistry' flying
Yes, that's real. Toy planes have also figured prominently in North Korea's "drone program" as well as previous air shows. To be fair, eventually pilots move on to train with a set of flight simulators that look like they're running on a modified version of 2000's "Windows Me."
Over the weekend, however, they decided to splurge. They decided to put a few old MiGs in the air to give people a taste of the awesome aerial power commanded by glorious leader Kim Jong Un, the totally-not-insane man pictured at the top of the page. The display was, apparently, all part of a new wave of sabre-rattling designed to intimidate American forces. It seems DPRK pilots are well trained - capable of destroying air craft carriers while engaging (and winning) dogfights where they're grossly outnumbered.
As reported by North Korea's bizarro propaganda media:
PYONGYANG, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has called on the country's air force to be ready to strike aircraft carriers, the official media reported Monday.
While guiding the combat flight contest among commanding officers of the Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force-2017, Kim said that "fighter pilots successfully performed diverse artistry flights, their flights were wonderful and they fully showed scientific flying and perfect aviation," said the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The contest was aimed at "training all the flight commanding officers to be a-match-for-a-hundred fighters capable of destroying any targets including enemy aircraft carriers ... and encouraging all the army to be combat-ready for national reunification," said the KCNA.
Yep, you read that right. Their artistry and scientific flying skills are second to none. Tremble in fear, western world!
Joking aside, we do have to keep in mind that Bowl Cut Jr. is a total nutjob who, thanks in part to decades of western inaction, now has at least some sort of fledgling nuclear capability. So, we have to lend a certain amount of weight to his crazy ramblings.
His Air Force, though? Yeah. We can probably afford not to worry too much about it.
