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MSN News turns to Dartmouth’s Hany Farid to confirm whether or not a recent photo released by the North Korean government is fake. According to Farid, a digital forensics expert and professor of computer science, the photo, which depicts military hovercraft and soldiers on a beach, was altered.

Farid noticed several signs, including “cloning,” indicating that the image had been altered. “The drawback is, if you duplicate something, the eye can see it,” Farid tells MSN News. “What they tried to do was make it look like there were more hovercrafts, but what they cloned is an actual object, and we’re pretty good at noticing that.”

Read the full story, published 3/28/13 on MSN News.