Kim Jong-un's Bodyguards Pack Some Serious Punch

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Kim Jong-un's Bodyguards Pack Some Serious Punch

Caleb LarsonKim Jong-Un, AsiaTheir high-capacity AK-74 mags are quite large.Here's What You Need to Know: Talk about packing a big punch.North Korea fields a dizzying number of weapons, both small arms and more complex systems like tanks and airplanes. The common thread connecting these weapons together? Almost all of them are copies of other country’s designs. Tanks? Soviet copy. Airplanes? Soviet surplus. Standard issue rifles? Soviet copy. Bu…