Turns out North Korea is a lot worse than your worst nightmares.

What I consider unprecedented from this is the media finally cluing into the fact that they have their very own spy satellites to use. The commercial stuff available today is said by Aviation Week & Space Technology to be as good as what the government was using in the mid-to-late 80s, which is (obviously) still damned useful.

Really, this is ground-breaking stuff. If the press would just get off their butts, they now have the capability to monitor other country's militaries, look for WMD labs and factories, count airplanes, ships, tanks, and trucks, death camps, execution yards, the works.

I've said it before, but it deserves repeating:

No increase in the ability of mankind to communicate has ever resulted in a loss of liberty.

Even if that communication is the mute expression of unspeakable suffering, observed by cold mechanical eyes miles away.

A bank-shot via Silflay.