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jongaros t1_jeax7ki wrote

North Korea produces weapons?

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octahexx t1_jeay8ha wrote

Probably artillery shells is my guess

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The-Entity t1_jebm6eh wrote

Possibly just old stockpiles.

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idk_lets_try_this t1_jeckx1j wrote

They actually have a defence industry and supplied quite a bit to the syrian conflict.

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The-Entity t1_jecnotq wrote

I know they do, ya gotta have something for the rest of the peasants to do. They can't all farm. But in all likelihood, they've been building x amount of munitions every year for the last 70 ish years with no real wars to use it. I know that's basically their entire schtick, shelling the ever living shit out of Seoul, + a few nukes to US and/or Japan. But still, I would imagine they have a massively excessive stockpile by now.

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Big-Fruit330 t1_jedf6gr wrote

I think you underestimate how many people it actually takes to farm with no equipment and no real productive land

I do agree with you tho

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NealR2000 t1_jebjuok wrote

Yes. To people and countries that don't particularly like us.

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idk_lets_try_this t1_jecktbw wrote

North korea has some rich copper deposits iirc. That is why one of their exports is large bronze statues of dictators (no joke) and presumably the capability to make casings. They also have hydroelectric power despite the population not having access to this, using this to manufacture explosives and other armaments would make sense, that is what some european countries did too in the past. They also have a devision that produces biological and chemical agents. What those exactly are is not known (or at least not disclosed by those that do) but all soldiers that defected are still vaccinated against smallpox and nerve agents are pretty easy to make. So we can make some guesses.

They also produce tanks and submarines but I doubt they will be a match for anything produced recently. Although north korea does have guided missiles, but maybe still relying on soviet tech? Or not who knows.

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deadlands_goon t1_jec7ym5 wrote

I’m guessing they produce some but a lot of their hardware probably comes from China

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