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Comrade Kim Jong Un driving a tank (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by dead@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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He reviewed the tank crews involved in the match and encourage them.

The tankmen who were greatly encouraged by the great brilliant commander's inspection, an expression of his deep trust, alongside their glorious colors on the training ground, extended deep gratitude to him.

After reviewing the tank crews, he mounted a new-type main battle tank, took the control lever and drove the tank himself, adding to the high militant spirit of the tankmen and instilling in them thoroughgoing outlooks on the enemy and war.

All the officers and men of the tank units raised stormy cheers of hurrah, looking up to the invincible and iron-willed brilliant commander.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/35dcef68b38b7556f7eb3ca1828d39d7.kcmsf
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[-] D61@hexbear.net 42 points 7 months ago

Its funny to me that driving a tank with your head sticking out the hatch makes you look like such a huge goober while at the same time driving a tank with your head sticking out of the hatch makes you feel freaking awesome.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

I didn’t even see him there until you pointed it out lol

kim-jong-il

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

tankie Common wisdom holds that this image ruined this guy's presidential run.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Dukakis in a tank hat, the Dean scream, Al Gore...

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[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 36 points 7 months ago

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

New peekaboo

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

Please post this to the emoji com

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

tankie

[-] dead@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lying western media is doubting that Kim Jong Un drove the tank himself.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-koreas-kim-guided-military-demonstration-involving-tanks-kcna-says-2024-03-13/

[-] Gamer_time@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

What, they don't think it's feasible he could have just learned to drive a tank at some point? Kim is constantly photographed around Army stuff, would it be too hard to take the time to be instructed in driving a tank back and forth?

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Terminal case of Dukakis-brain tankie

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Apparently it was "common knowledge" for decades in Japan and occupied Korea that Kim Il-Sung was actually some other dude impersonating a veteran guerilla with that name. Unhinged conspiracy theories are the stock-in-trade of western-aligned coverage of the DPRK.

Edit: By the way, if you look this up, you'll still see popular media lending a lot of credence to this claim, because no lie is too pathetic to be asserted about the DPRK today.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Edit: By the way, if you look this up, you'll still see popular media lending a lot of credence to this claim, because no lie is too pathetic to be asserted about the DPRK today.

I was gonna say they still do push this claim even today. Plenty of trashy defector shows in the ROK will occasionally talk like they're discussing the old monarchy in regards to the DPRK in the sense they're saying every Kim is some kind of illegitimate pretender to the throne and keeps the kingdom together with a web of lies that would unravel if the people knew their great leader was a descended from some peasant thief and not the brave warlord he stole the name from.

Although that isn't as popular as making defectors eat food and react to foreign shit like KFC, Texan BBQ, or burgers or some shit. Or shit like how they love kpop music and that kids who listen to it will get their entire family thrown in prison for 40 years when they're caught listening to it.

You know, outrageous claims that the thing you like is illegal and will get you killed over there so you should be happier here kind of shit.

At least from my understanding those kinds of shows aren't as popular as they were 10+ years ago.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Lol did nobody notice when some other guy shows up and starts to act like their war hero friend?

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

He’s a trained pilot with 100+ logged flight hours.

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

how much harder than any random car could a tank be to drive around a flat field when you're surrounded and supported by dedicated tank crews? It's got to be one of the lowest energy, lowest stakes conspiracy theories. Might as well claim a photo shoot of him eating a hot dog was faked too.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

A modern tank? Might even be using an xbox controller. If this was a ww2 tank? Then the controls would be the most ridiculous bs you would have ever seen.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

lmao we teach meatheads who only passed highschool because they got lenient grading how to drive them

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

In North Korea, the military doesn’t have enough resources to build functioning tanks. They build a tank shell, and inside are 10 malnourished soldiers pushing it around with their feet.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If libs are gonna call us tankies why not just lean into it?

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Love it

DPRK English press releases are so corny in an awesome way

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

they use like 15 words when two would do. it's great kim-cool

[-] Demoncracy@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 7 months ago

His hair looks cool on the last photo.

I hope he stays healthy so DPRK doesn't suffer destabilization with the west being as bloodthirsty as they are now. :(

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago

His hair looks cool on the last photo.

That's a good thing because everyone must have that same haircut, or so I'm told

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

yeonmi-park what's not pictured is earlier North Korean tank manufacturer 보잉 (/bɔɪŋ/) had an incident with a side door popping off during a witch hunt. The entire driving crew and the maintenance crew were executed and their families have been forced to work in the salt mines.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

It's this a DPRK built tank? Looks cool 😎

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Came to ask this, I would love to know the design process and the why behind all the bits of equipment

[-] D61@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Scout/combined arms armored cavalry stuff. Likely high resolution periscope with night vision capabilities, laser for range finding and painting a target for guided missiles. Anti-aircraft rocket launcher tube stuck to the side there, empty. Armored ammo can for the 40mm automatic grenade launcher. (Smart).

Basic smoke grenade launchers, reactive armor blocks and anti rocket grates on the back of the tank body and turret (where the engine and main gun ammo are located, respectively).

DPRK flag.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

kim-drip-too-hard

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Damn I want to drive a tank. Closest I've got was a bobcat.

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

oh hell yeah new tankie emoji finally dropped

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

denji-just-like-me

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

He's so fucking cool. I want to drive a Juche tank.

[-] DanComrd@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

I'm a tank dweeb but I can't quite figure out which tank the KPAGF has now. It looks like a mix of Abrams and a T-90M characteristics. Is this their new domestic tank now?

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

If Wikipedia is to be believed (yeah, I know), the tank has no official name yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2020_tank

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

No built: 9 prototypes

uhhhh i think this is wrong lol

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago

North Korea so dystopian, only 9 of those tanks are real. The rest are card board on top of chunks of Dear Leader's swiss cheese stash.

yeonmi-park

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Speaks 3 foreign languages (English, French, German)
Trained pianist
Apparently quite good at basketball
Certified fighter jet pilot with 100+ logged flight hours
Drives a fucking tank