Early this morning, North Korea attempted to put a satellite into orbit--or, at least, that's what the DPRK claims, though hardly anybody actually believes that the aim was solely to launch a weather satellite. The rocket carrying the satellite failed to move into its second phase and exploded into dozens of pieces, which fell into the Yellow Sea in between the Korean peninsula and mainland China. Those are being quickly scooped up by the Chinese and South Koreans, who will try to figure out what North Korea was really up to. Recommended reading: longtime Korea-based journalist Donald Kirk's overview; China Daily, for China's comparatively subdued reaction; Foreign Policy for the U.S. reaction; and CNN for the reaction from the rest of Asia.
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So I assume that by this afternoon there will be several "Rocket Scientist" job openings in North Korea.
Just be sure to resign before the next launch.
This is not to be ignored. Just look at the USA rocket history, Russia, China and others, a lot of rockets did not even leave the launch pad in their beginnings.
North Korea continues on with their nuclear bomb development too.
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Talking to a friend today, he was entertaining the idea that it was sabotaded by the DPRK in order to 'fool' the west into thinking they were years away from ICBM capability. Of course, it's possible, but more likely that it isn't, as they are more concerned with their own internal propoganda than getting into a nuclear war with the west.
This is pure speculation,but it occurred to me that the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed,which was mothballed after the program was cancelled last December,might have been secretly resurrected for a special job: shooting down North Korea's latest missile test.It would be a win-win situation all round.The Air Force might get their ABL program restarted,and the North Korean missile program would suffer another long term setback,with no one the wiser as to why the test launch failed.
Perhaps North Korea being a step child of China took some of their rocket advice and painted all the parts with lead base paint.
The lead base paint was not calculated into the design and the poor little rocket fell apart from the added weight.
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When will North Korea run out of food for their army? Still waiting.
they cant afford food but they can blow up 500,000,000 dollars
Now, now. This was no rocket failure. In fact, this was no failure at all; yeah, that's the ticket. It was designed to blow up, because they were spreading fearless leader's remains in accordance with his final wishes.
So easy, and, frankly, journalistically unethical, for Pop Sci to editorialize that what North Korea was sending up wasn't just a weather satellite. Yet how much print do they use speculating that any of the dozens of space shots by the U.S. at least every year are something more than what they claim? Of course, Pop Sci is playing to the mentality that thinks Washington can never lie, at least when it's in a matter of thinking ourselves necessarily better than everybody else, to the point of having the right to murder them without reason or for greed. As evidence, the insistence of devotees of PopSci to the fiction that North Koreans are starving. Don't expect thse individuals to be bright enough to realize that, even if the emphasis was on feeding the North Korean army, food doesn't get grown by farmers who are starving!