North Korea's planned rocket test: Why It Matters

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57413401/north-korea-launches-but-rocket-appears-to-fail/


North Korea launches, but rocket appears to fail



Updated 8:23 PM ET
(CBS/AP) SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has fired a long-range rocket, top U.S. and South Korean officials confirm. But a top U.S. official tells CBS News correspondent David Martin Press that the rocket "may have failed."


South Korean defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters in a nationally televised news conference that the rocket was fired at 7:39 a.m.


He said officials were trying to determine whether it was a success. He provided no further details, and declined to say how South Korea confirmed the launch in the west coast hamlet of Tongchang-ri.


Japan's Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka said, "We have confirmed that a certain flying object has been launched and fell after flying for just over a minute." He did not say what exactly was launched.


He said there was no impact on Japanese territory from the launch.
A U.S. official told Reuters Thursday: "We are confirming the rocket launched." The White House said it would release a statement on the launch shortly, and South Korean presidency was set to hold an emergency meeting.


Reuters reported that the U.N. Security Council will convene on Friday to discuss a response to the launch, according to council diplomats.
"The North Korea rocket launch is a clear provocation and a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions which prohibit this activity," Kap-soo Rim, First Secretary of the Republic of Korea Mission to the U.N., told CBS News.


"The Security Council should act decisively, and strongly," Rim said, "the Ambassador is waiting for instructions from Seoul."


CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk said that the launch probably marks the end of the food agreement with the U.S. "but it is unlikely to provoke more than a statement of alarm from the U.N. in the short term, and perhaps more extensive sanctions in the long term, particularly since the launch failed."
North Korea had announced it was planning the launch of an observation satellite to celebrate Sunday's centennial of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder. There was no word from Pyongyang about the launch, its third attempt to send a satellite into space since 1998. North Korean officials said they would make an announcement about the launch "soon."

[Malsua]

[Malsua]

To hell with the runty norks! A bunch of short of stature, small of penis dipshits living 75 years behind the world. They deserve to be starved out until they collapse. Fucking commie assholes.

[American Patriot]

US officials warn failed North Korea missile launch paves way for future tests

By Catherine Herridge

Published April 16, 2012

FoxNews.com

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April 15, 2012: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un applauds as he leaves after a mass military parade in Pyongyang. (AP)

The very public failure of North Korea's latest missile launch lays the groundwork for more testing and potentially more provocative acts by the budding regime of Kim Jong-un, U.S. officials told Fox News.

The rocket tested last week failed about a minute after it was deployed.

Kim Jong-un, in his first public speech, went on to declare that his "first, second and third" priorities are to strengthen the military -- as the regime unveiled a huge display of weapons in a Pyongyang military parade including a purportedly new missile.

"The botched rocket launch is clearly a setback for the North Koreans," one U.S. official told Fox News, while warning that the regime probably will not be deterred.

"The acknowledgment of failure was unprecedented, but it lays the groundwork to say more testing is needed to validate research. We probably haven't seen the last North Korean provocation," the official said.

The public display on Sunday was seen by regional observers as another example of the importance North Korea's leaders place on their weapons-development program, though it's unclear whether the missile on display was real.

Significantly, U.S. officials are not denying that preparations have begun for a third nuclear weapon test. They do not deny that activity had been picked up through satellite imagery -- that shows North Korean workers digging tunnels into the existing mines that were used for tests in 2006 and 2009.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1sDB7CC9w

[American Patriot]

whaaa whaaa whaaa... what does the UN exist for again?????


UN strongly condemns North Korea rocket launch, warns of further action if new nuclear test

By Associated Press, Monday, April 16, 8:41 AM

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is strongly condemning North Korea’s rocket launch and warning it will take further action if it conducts another launch or a new nuclear test.


A presidential statement, approved by all 15 council members and read at a formal meeting Monday morning, said Friday’s launch, as well as any future use of ballistic missile technology, is “a serious violation” of U.N. sanctions.

The council said it plans to add “additional entities and items” subject to U.N. sanctions to the current sanctions list.


The council demanded that North Korea halt any further launches and said Friday’s launch “has caused grave concerns in the region.”

[Malsua]

warns of further action if new nuclear test

Probably penning a sternly worded letter.

[American Patriot]

Ummm...

To establish the New World Order.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I did NOT know that......

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N.Korea Rocket 'Could Fly 10,000 km'

Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on Sunday claimed North Korea's failed rocket would, if successful, have a range of 10,000 km, which would make it capable of reaching the west coast of the U.S. Kim told the National Assembly's Defense Committee, "We have discussed that this one was probably upgraded to fly about 10,000 km."

The rocket is 30 m long and has a diameter of 2.5 m, similar to a rocket launched in April 2009, which was 32 m long and had a 2.2 m diameter. But the new rocket is 13 tons heavier at 92 tons.

Rocket experts believe that North Korea tried to put in more fuel with an improved engine in order to increase liftoff thrust. The previous rocket was said to have a range of 6,700 km, which would make it just capable of reaching Alaska, but the South Korean military speculates that the North worked on improving the range.

Meanwhile, indications are that the rocket exploded 55 seconds earlier than initially reported, namely two minutes and 15 seconds after launch. A source in the South Korean government said, "There was a strange occurrence that looked like an explosion at 50 km above sea level around one minute and 20 seconds after the launch. The rocket continued to fly thanks to thrust and inertia, and at two minutes and 15 seconds, at 70.5 km above sea level, it split in two."

The first-stage rocket thus probably exploded one minute and 20 seconds after launch, so the cause is now more likely to have been a flawed engine or fuel leakage from the first-stage rocket.

englishnews@chosun.com / Apr. 16, 2012 12:30 KST