Last night , North Korea unexpectedly decided to test a atomic dud without the usual good manners of telling anybody first . But it ’s just the later in a long pedigree of terrifying and crazy things that the nation get up to .
Led by a single family since 1948 — first Kim Il - sung , then later Jong - Il and now Jong - un — North Korea has a rich history chequered with both mirthful and tragic account . Here ’s a potted timeline of everything weird and frightful that ’s come out of the DPRK since its instauration .
1950 : After just two years of being a country , North Korea invades South Korea because why not ? This , as you might have guessed , kicks off the Korean War .
1950s : Soviet Union determine to be helpful , giving North Korea the substance to start its nuclear program .
fifties : North Korea constructs Kijong - dong , a phony city situate in the DMZ stand for to entice South Korean defectors . It’sstill there — and uninhabited — today .
1965(ish ) Jong - il claims in his biography to have write no fewer than 1,500 book in his three year at university .
1976 : Two US Army military officer killed by North Korean soldier in what is known asthe Axe Murder Incident . The pair were viciously murdered for pruning a poplar tree .
1978 : Kim Jong - Il , not yet ascended to leadership , kidnaps famed South Korean film director Shin Sang - ok to aid jumpstart North Korea ’s burgeoning propaganda pic industry . He make seven film before in conclusion get by in 1986 .
1985 : North Korea signs up to the nuclear non - proliferation treaty . wholly normal at the fourth dimension , a little mad in retrospect given …
1986 : Yongbyon nuclear reactor put into surgical operation . power by uranium , it was capable of producing artillery - grade plutonium .
1991 : North Korea somehow joins the UN .
1994 : Kim Jong - il purportedlytries his hand at golf for the first time , managing a 38 - under par rung that include no fewer than 11 holes in one . quenched , he immediately declare his retreat from the sportsman .
1998 : Taepodong-1 , a two - stagecoach intermediate - range ballistic projectile , developed and tested . US claims North Korea is developing atomic weapons at secret site .
2003 : North Korea withdraws from the Nuclear Non - Proliferation Treaty ( by nature ) .
2004 : Jong - ilclaims the invention of the burger as his own .
2005 : North Korea publically declare its has nuclear weapons .
2006 : First ( ? ) nuclear test in the North Korea . US officials suggest that it was likely a misfire . Whoops !
2007 : A smoke forbidding isimposed on the total cityof Pyongyang , to prevent Kim Jong - il from being exposed to secondhand heater during his retrieval from surgery .
2008 : Kim Jong - ilreportedly schemesto move out all brusk the great unwashed from Pyongyang by promising them access to a marvellous sharpen drug , then kidnapping them .
2008 : A 50 - year - older female South Korean tourist is shot down by a North Korean soldier for stumbling into ‘ military territory ’ in … the Keumgang Mountain Tourist Region .
2009 : North Korea launches a garden rocket call Unha in the general direction of Japan , in what is likely an modern preview of WWIII . Second atomic test .
2010 : North Korea is blamed for the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan and the deaths of 46 of her crew . The country ’s ordnance also bombard the South Korean island of Yeongpyeong , kill four people .
September 2011 : Horrific North Koreandeath camps show up on Google Maps .
April 2012 : Nort Koreaspends $ 15 on its new website . Officialsproudly parade a series of fake missile .
November 2012 : Kim Jong - Un namedThe Onion ’s Sexiest Man Alive 2012 . archeologist of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences in North Koreadiscover a Unicorn lair . Obviously .
December 2012 : The countrycasually puts a rocket into spacewithout warning anybody . It turn outto be a satellite .
February 2013 : North Korea conducts underground nuclear trial run without warning , using a “ miniaturise atomic gadget with swell explosive force . ”
paradigm acknowledgment : Wiki Commons
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