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North Korea photoshopping: Why would they want to trick the world? - Telegraph

North Korea's suspected photoshopping of images showing an amphibious hovercraft landing has raised a number of tantalising questions about what the regime in Pyongyang is up to.

The Atlantic magazine was the first to raise the alarm and since then a number of news agencies have removed the offending image, which shows eight hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicles (ACVs), in various stages of attack. As faked images go, the photo in question is reasonably innocuous: a subsequent, apparently undoctored image shows a total of six ACVs on the beach with troops dismounted and moving inland.

The image is likely of the North Korean Kongbang-class hovercraft.

IHS Jane's believes Pyongyang has about 130 of these in a number of variants, which are based on commercial technology sourced from the British, 1960s-era SR. N6 Winchester-class hovercraft.