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Kim Jong Un’s Train Missile Video Shows Hollywood Influence

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  • Footage demonstrates North Korea’s focus on image-making
  • Sister, Kim Yo Jong, plays a role in effort to modernize image
WATCH: Kim Jong Un has added train-launched missiles to North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.

North Korea released video of its new system to launch missiles from trains, offering a multitude of camera angles that show its capabilities, and underscoring Kim Jong Un’s push to increase the production value of state propaganda.

The video starts with a shot from a drone flying over train tracks that lead into a tunnel. From there, two reddish-bronze train carriages emerge pushed by a locomotive. The airborne drone footage captures men in what appear to be matching beige jumpsuits leaving a carriage, while the roof from one carriage is retracted and a missile rises.