The Very Large Array (VLA) is a bank of radio telescopes in New Mexico, US, and hasappeared in a number of films including Contact and Independence Day.
The pictures have been picked up by much of the US media but no British newspaper has published them, although they have appeared on a political blog in the UK and the Sun mocked up an image of one of them on its front page.
Saddam Hussein hasappeared on television several times since the start of the US-led campaign to topple him, but there is debate as to whether the broadcasts were live or pre-recorded.
In its latest statement, attributed to a military spokesman, the North appeared to refer to continuing military exercises between the US and South Korea in which the UShas flown nuclear-capable bombers over the South.