Close Enough For Government Work

CNN publishes an aerial photo of a North Korean nuclear plant:

Using more advanced satellite imagery, however, and we not only see the plant in more detail but find it has moved to the other side of Asia:

For what it's worth, the embattled network has now identified the plant as definitely an Iranian facility, and corrected its North Korea story. The continuing mystery of bilocation is, apparently, a story CNN is determined to ignore.

Comments

[joe]

lmao!

[NoStar]

Only goes to show if you've seen one nuke plant, you've seen 'em all.

[Ken Shultz]

Six of one, half a dozen of the other, what's the difference so long as we're all properly terrified?

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[Russ D]

Are you really sure this is one place? Maybe Iran and NL are using the same architect as Wal-Mart.

[Lord Duppy]

I don't see how it matters where the plant is as long as we're scared. Details like locaion shouldnt get in the way.

[aaron]

North Korea is obviously selling nuclear technology to Iran.

[Dynamist]

Mis-naming a file or confusing a link is a common mistake; this might be the result of overwork on deadline by minions deep within the machine.

Still pretty funny (more so since it wasn't my mistake), but probably not indicative of anything conspiratorial.

[Mo]

Maybe YOUR infidel nuclear sites cannot move, but Allah has granted us the power to move our nuclear facilities at will. Look for them in Syria next.

It's like a twisted version of Where on Earth is Carmen San Diego.

[Stevo Darkly]

See, this is the problem with McWorld globalization. Every city block from altai to Albuquerque has a nuclear plant, and they all look alike.

Worse, the local, traditional "mom and pop" nuke plants are being squeezed out.

[kwais]

I have the top secret high definition pictures, and I can tell you that actually is a picture of Walmart that has been mislabeled.

[Ayatollah Usoe]

Cut the network some slack. I mean if the current administration can't tell the difference between the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and we went to war to find O'Sadama, then why should the network aspire to any higher standard?

[Dave S.]

Is that the face of Death in there?

[aaron]

Dave S.

Ok, now I'm scared.

[kwais]

Ayatollah,
So why do we need to cut the network some slack?

[Ayatollah Usoe]

kwais, news only pretends to be accurate. It is strictly modern bread and circuses. Every President and every congressman gets elected by what H.L. Mencken called "Boobus Americanus" and that is who the news is intended for. And on that measure, the news is doing fine.

[Poustman]

I'm certain that 'the news' report *some* things accurately. Probably man if not most things. But the crazy thing is that we can obviously never be sure, or even particularly confident, that any given news item is reported accurately, or without unreasonable bias, etc.

So once you've seen this kind of error, can you even watch the news with any real degree of trust again?

I guess when you think about it, it is utterly indefensible that anyone ever watched the news with full confidence, since while rampant partisanship in 'journalizm*' may possibly be fairly recent, human error cannot be.

*I'd like to see the entire profession mildly pilloried by the use of this subversive term.

[Poustman]

Correction: 'many' if not most

[thoreau]

Perhaps Bush will claim that these photos are from Iraq. We've finally found the WMD!

[kwais]

Cmon Thoreau,
You know Kerry would have been worse. Don't make me go there.

[SPD]

"Don't make me go there."

--Bush 43 to Bush 41, circa 1970

[kwais]

What was Bush 41 doing circa 1970?

How do you think Bush 43 would have been different if he did go "there"?

"Don't make me go there", did he really not want to go? I think I heard on MSNBC life stories that he wanted to go, but that he was piloting planes that weren't being used.

[SPD]

kwais,

Please discover humor someday. It's really awesome.

[Hydroman]

Hey, that`s the same picture Gillespie put on the front cover of my June 2004 issue of Reason mag.

[free form]

>>Worse, the local, traditional "mom and pop" nuke plants are being squeezed out.

[kim jong il man]

Any one know where I can get some Kim Jong-il style sunglasses? My new look is dictator-chic.

[Pavel]

See, this is the problem with McWorld globalization.

It's funny cause it's true! Jihad and McWorld share all their best ideas.

North Korea is the nuclear equivalent of Hamburger University. And when you see those golden arches or cached rods of uranium, you can always expect the same great value for your dollar.

[SPD]

Don't even think about super-sizing them bad boys!

[Ken Shultz]

kim jong il man,

It's not about the glasses; it's about the jumpsuit.

[Stevo Darkly]

I supposed this sort of thing is innebbiddibble.

[joe]

"I think I heard on MSNBC life stories that he wanted to go, but that he was piloting planes that weren't being used."

Shame his application to the Air Force got misrouted to the National Guard, then.

[Shawn]

I think Bush Sr. had an affair with an alien from outer space and created his spawn son on Earth so that He and his wicked administration gathered by the the cobolt 4 galaxy, could take total control of this planet, and strip Earth of it's resources for personal use thereby tipping the scales in the universe to their side. And once all of this evil plan has been accomplished the dark side will call George W. Bush to jump in his underwater spaceship that has been effectively hidden for 5,000 years to come back and rejoice about their secret agenda conquest. ........Bwa ha ha ha!

(Just a liberal perspective)

[2klb_gorilla]

Looks like it may be another view of Three Mile Island. . .

[Jon H]

Obviously, they were both working out of A. Q. Khan's bestselling collection of knitting patterns and nuclear facility plans.

If you look closely, each picture clearly shows a macrame reactor cozy. The Iranian one has a simple geometric pattern, in line with the tenets of their faith, but the North Koreans went a little wild and knit theirs as a huge portrait of their Dear Leader (with details in metallic yarn!)