What if Gerald Bull was contracted by North Korea instead of Iraq

I don't think it's possible, Iraq was at that time still a semi friend (to the USA/Western Countries) because it served as a barrier against Iran. It's only a bit later that Iraq became an enemy. North Korea was always an enemy, I cannot see Gerald Bull working for them in even a covert way.

What you would be looking for is Gerald Bull's Soviet doppleganger (Gennady Bullski??), much more likely to be working for the North Koreans.
 

Tovarich

Banned
Like the title says, what if Gerald Bull's services for a super gun where contracted out by North Korea?

Looking at the comparitive borders and distance/targets, Bull would've said something like "Woo-hoo! So much pay for so little work!" and retired after about a fortnight.
 
I don't think it's possible, Iraq was at that time still a semi friend (to the USA/Western Countries) because it served as a barrier against Iran. It's only a bit later that Iraq became an enemy. North Korea was always an enemy, I cannot see Gerald Bull working for them in even a covert way.

What you would be looking for is Gerald Bull's Soviet doppleganger (Gennady Bullski??), much more likely to be working for the North Koreans.

The Americans were more aligned with China in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Maybe he could make it for the Chinese hwo then sell it to Kim?
 
What you would be looking for is Gerald Bull's Soviet doppleganger (Gennady Bullski??), much more likely to be working for the North Koreans.
When I read this, I imagined Gerald Bull getting angry that his doppleganger got a contract, so he builds a supergun for South Korea, and shortly afterward the Koreas end up two gigantic Freudian nightmares pointing at eachother.
 
Bull is going to find it nearly impossible to get to North Korea and, once there, he''l find it truly impossible to leave.

Bull may have been incredibly naive or he may have been so fixated on his "Shooting To Orbit" idea that he ignored some aspects of his employers, but I seriously doubt Bull was completely fucking stupid enough to willingly sentence himself to what will be life imprisonment in North Korea.

This suggestion is ASB.
 

Tovarich

Banned
If NK seriously wanted his work, it wasn't neccessary for him to actually go there.
It's not like he was was knocking up cannons in his garage-workshop.
 
Maybe we're approaching this from the wrong direction; Bull probably wouldn't take a contract from North Korea, but that doesn't mean he couldn't end up working for the Kims. Given the North Korean track record, it would hardly be much a stretch to propose North Korean agents kidnapping Bull and subsequently forcing him to work for them.
 
Maybe we're approaching this from the wrong direction; Bull probably wouldn't take a contract from North Korea, but that doesn't mean he couldn't end up working for the Kims. Given the North Korean track record, it would hardly be much a stretch to propose North Korean agents kidnapping Bull and subsequently forcing him to work for them.
Would it be a big stretch for Saddam Hussein to contract out the component fabrication work to the Norks? Thus effectively giving the plans for both versions of the superguns.
 
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