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Kim Possible: Daily Show Runs Satellite Image of Suspected NK Test Site

I’ve been waiting for an major news outlet to run a commercial satellite image the suspected North Korean nuclear test site near Kilju (Kilchu).

Imagine my surprise when the leading “fake news” outlet The Daily Show with Jon Stewart runs what purports to be a satellite image of North Korea either preparing for a nuclear test or “marinating the world’s largest jar of kimchee.”

Comedy Central posted the clip on-line, in an utterly hilarious segment entitled “Kim Possible.”

Maybe it was just a stock photo.

Anybody know how to contact the Daily Show to figure out where they got the image?

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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