Fake one from North Korea:
Real one from Pakistan:
One of over a hundred real ones Pakistan has. Here's a few friendly facts about Pakistan while we are talking about them....
* Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, trained and supported Mullah Omar. Mullah Omar founded this little organization called the Taliban. You guys might have heard of them.
* Pakistan to this day allows the Taliban to occupy large regions along the border to travel in and out of Afghanistan (fighting and killing Americans).
* Pakistan Military Academy, their equivalent of our West Point, is only about 14 football fields in length away from the compound that sheltered Osama Bin Laden for over 5 years.
* In the material recovered from the compound where we killed Osama Bin Laden (the one less than a mile away from their best intelligence training base in case you forgot), they found a cell phone with contacts who are connected top ISI commanders.
* There's lots of reliable evidence to prove that the ISI command is directly supporting the Taliban and other extremist groups. There's insane amounts of corruption and ties to extremist groups like Al Qaeda.
They have active border conflicts with another nuclear country, India.
Pakistan has one of the biggest nuclear stockpiles in the world. It's something like the fifth or sixth largest. They have a crazy border conflict that's started like 5 different wars and resulted in a nuclear race between the two. There's constant tension on that side. On the other side, it's literally controlled by the fucking Taliban and opium drug lords. In the middle you have a seriously corrupted intelligence services. All of that coming together to create the most dangerous shit sandwich we might have to eat one day.
And another issue with Pakistan is their enabling of the Taliban along the Afghanistan border. They have allowed the Taliban to have safe haven in Pakistan so they can organize and prepare for incursions into Afghanistan to kill American soldiers who are there. They are very likely secretly arming their fighters too.
We will never win the war in Afghanistan while Pakistan allows the Taliban to have safe haven. It's just like the situation in Vietnam. All the North Vietnamese Army had to do was wait out the invading force. It's their home and they'll bear the pain and suffering for their entire lives to win. When they needed safety the NVA moved over into Laos and Cambodia, who the United States wasn't at war with. Just like the Vietnam war, Americans aren't at war with Pakistan. So that will always be safe haven for the Taliban, and since Afghanistan is home for them they will always be willing to wait it out for their entire lives.
America will never devote the proper resources to take the correct action to win in Afghanistan. We will simply continue killing low level Taliban fighters until America pulls us out.