Doesn’t this aerial map of North Korea’s nuclear plantlook a lot like the aerial maps of Iran’s alleged facilities? I guess it makes sense that most nuclear plants would strongly resemble one another, but why is the North Korean image labeled “story.suspected.site.iran.jpg”?
CNN’s fuck-up, or since we the American people are eating this shit up with a spoon, can’t they even be bothered to re-label the propaganda?
It’s not the same photo, though it may be the same place. Do you have any idea what a nuclear facility looks like? I don’t.
Which one are you saying doesn’t have nuclear weapons?
Chances those are pictures of two different facilities are pretty slim, I’d have to say. The only difference I can see is that there’s cars in the parking lot in the zoomed in shot. But I’d guess this is just CNN’s screwup (or laziness), given the filenames.
I didn’t say either. The problem here is that an image captioned “An aerial photo of North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear plant” is titled “story.suspected.site.iran.jpg”
Or perhaps a low grade wonk at CNN’s IT operation simply pulled in the wrong JPEG file of a nuclear plant?
The old saying is worth repeating: “Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.”
Okay, let me clarify: I pit either-
a) CNN, for stupidity on a really, really important issue
or
b) the government, for malice, for now not just claiming evidence exists, but falsifying documents.
Hey, I know b is pretty unlikely, but many things I once dismissed as unlikely or impossible have come to pass these last few years.
The two pictures are linked as:
…i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/11/nkorea.talks/story.suspected.site.iran.jpg
and
…i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WORLD/europe/02/09/rice/story.suspected.site.iran.2.jpg
What part of ‘north korea talks…suspected site iran’ sounds like a mere stupid mistake?
It does sound like a stupid mistake, then again people communicating on the interent brought down the fraud that Dan Rather tried to pull, perhaps this is another case of that.
If the issue is using the wrong file photo or labelling something improperly, I have to say this is not a very big mistake. It’s possible it’s dishonest, if so, screw them.
I can’t see how you got to A from B. You think the government’s evidence consists of a jpeg? Are you suggesting the entire A.Q. Khan story was fake because of this CNN thing?
No. What other theories on my motivations can you come up with?
I pitted it because I find this tremendously amusing and rather disgusting.
I don’t follow your argument, that’s why I’m asking what it is. Am I speaking a foreign language?
It’s really stupid to put a picture of an Iranian facility in a article about North Korea.
K, we’re agreed about that. It was the rest of your OP I wasn’t sure about.
By the way, if anyone’s curious, here are some pictures of the Yongbyon complex.