Warship camouflage developed by North Korea

MELBOURNE - North Korea has developed camouflage, including stealth paint, that will help in hiding warships, tanks and aircraft from reconnaissance satellites, a media report said.

A confidential field manual used by the North Korean military revealed that they had also built a network of foxholes and caves, the Australian Newsagency cited the Chosun Ilbo newspaper as reporting.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was quoted as saying in the manual that “modern warfare is stealth warfare. We can say that victory or defeat will be determined by how we carry out stealth warfare”.

The manual was smuggled out of North Korea by a source through Caleb Mission, a South Korean Christian organisation.

Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the manual, published five years back, gives detailed instructions on how to make and apply the stealth paint, which absorbs radar waves.

It goes on to describe how to hide facilities and how to make military units look as if they were moving when they were actually stationary.

Chosun Ilbo quoted an intelligence expert as saying that he was surprised to note that the North Korean military has done “more intensive and careful research into stealth tactics than we thought”.

It stated that the handbook tells about how to conceal long-range artillery equipment by applying radar-reflective materials.