How North Korea Smuggled 87 US Scout Helicopters

Well only to the extent that NK keeps everything under wraps. Their possession of the MD500s was well-known by the mid-1980s and South Korean authorities used to order snap-groundings of the type. Any still flying were treated 'robustly'.

Recreational skydivers are a world away from airborne troops, I was expecting something like a Hercules when I clicked the link! With all their gear you could probably put a single section in one of those, a Hercules can comfortably handle two whole platoons!

Looking at National Interest's about page, I find the first billed founder is Irving Kristol - a man instantly recognizable to students of recent history as the father of neoconservatism. You'll have to judge for yourself whether the fruits of that particular political movement are such as to recommend the unskeptical consideration of any claim advanced by its adherents - especially when such claims tend in the direction of another pointless, long drawn-out fight that's of no ultimate benefit to anyone anywhere.

It might, for example, be mildly invidious to say that the same "chickenhawks", who last decade suckered a credulous US leader into a new-styled yet no less horrific and pointless Middle Eastern Vietnam, here show that they have managed the - by some measure, very impressive! - feat of learning absolutely nothing from their manifold and grievous errors - not even the minimal good grace required to accept manfully the verdict of utter discreditation which history has delivered upon them; and then, not satisfied with the vast scope of human and economic ruin which they have already wrought, they continue to insist that their soi-disant "New American Century", to the very greatest possible extent, be one of utterly pointless blood and fire.

But were someone to say something of the sort, one might, after consideration of relevant recent history, perhaps hesitate to castigate that person very harshly for so doing.

But I don't see why you would think this article should be distrusted. It just describes a historical event, which was widely covered by newspapers at the time.