510 - The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction | Ars Technica
The success of the Sputnik 1 mission meant that the Americans were no longer controlling the sky, a powerful message for North Koreans who remembered that the US Air Force bombed their country just a few years earlier during the Korean War. According to some estimates, American jets dropped 635,000 tons of bombs, which included 32,000 tons of napalm. Twelve to 15 percent of the population was killed, and Pyongyang and other major cities were almost reduced to rubble. To a Western reader, suc...
