Posted on 04/12/2012 4:42:54 PM PDT by gandalftb
North Korea launched a three-stage rocket from a missile base near the west coast city of Sinuiju today, claiming that it was carrying a weather satellite of purely civilian use.
Its projected trajectory was almost due south on a course 150 miles east of Shanghai. The second stage of the rock was to splash down east of the Philippines, which prompted Manila to cancel northbound flights as a precaution.
Initial network news reports said the rocket failed during flight.
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Rocket 404:
Orbit not found
So you’ve got them figgered out——it wasn’t really a longdongcheechNchong rocket but an underwater mining machine going after those pesky manganese nodules——maybe the runt is getting the rast raff.?
That foreign press corpse that Punky invited in were hostages-—— to keep everyone else from shooting the roman candle on its launch pad.
That’s about right and if it’s true that the roman candle reached a height of 120 KM before blowing then second and third stage fins wouldn’t mean anything anyway-—no air. Even the first stage fins look a little “early Hitler “to me-—I’m guessing they were just stacking engines, pointing and shooting, and hoping for a “reat rictory “.
Agreed.
This may have been an attempt by the new leader, who has spent time in the West, to show the benefits of good international PR to his much older mentors.
I see no way this level of media attention could have happened without Kim Jong-Un’s explicit approval, and probably with his encouragement.
It should be interesting to see how his older mentors view this massive loss of public face.
I would not want to be one of the hairsprayed North Korean PAOs right now who were responsible for media management. The only worse job would be the North Korean bus driver who took media buses into the Pyongyang equivalent of slums while photographers snapped cameras. I'm guessing the bus driver will be driving something very different for a long time if he's still alive, and the same for a lot of female PAOs and male rocket scientists.
Korean kimchi temper is a terrible thing to behold.
Oh yes, I agree with all of that except the equivalent of slums.... he took them to the real Pyongyang after straying off of Potemkin Village Road. The PAO’s who didn’t take away the memory cards from the cameras is going to be in deep kimchi too.
Chinese not Korean....
wait is there a physiological difference or are North Koreans just so malnourished??
I guess it really is rocket science. Now they’ll probably execute the engineers they think are responsible for the failure. Poor b@$t@rd$.
I guess it really is rocket science. Now they’ll probably execute the engineers they think are responsible for the failure. Poor b@$t@rd$.
You two are spot on with my thoughts regarding this failure.
Then you realize Obama is our CIC. Japan maybe. U. S., doubtful.
I’m half surprised Obama hasn’t lofted an investigation yet.
I think the photos come from this march of the Chinese military. Look to the end for videos of how strict their march training is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=OHZIUdHm6b4&NR=1
Gotta say one good thing about the Communists: they have great looking uniforms and military parades.
Too bad (for them) that some of their stuff blows up before it’s supposed to.
I seek the Luongdong 3!
Seriesy, what part of chicks in miniskirts goosestepping is NOT to like?
That would be a belligerent act. Let’s not go creating facts on the ground (fait accompli) here.
Even the real Pyongyang that reporters and visitors don't get to see is far better than the rural countryside.
As for the non-confiscation of the camera cards: I read the accompanying article in the Korean press. The reporters seem as surprised as anyone else that their camera cards weren't confiscated, or at least the curtains drawn on the bus to end photography. My guess is that the North Korean PAO ladies were given directions about managing media, followed them to the letter as they were trained to do, and now are in huge trouble for doing precisely what they were told.
No makeup or hairspray for those ladies for a very long time, unless they can convince people the fault was much higher than them.
I've said it many times: If you want to make a car better, give it to the Asians. They'll make a thousand minuscule minor improvements because of their attention to details we never noticed, and the end result may be a better product. But don't expect Asia to have a Henry Ford who invented cars in the first place. The educational system simply does not promote the innovative thinking and risk-taking that's required to make major advances in technical fields, let alone academic fields.
Yep. That look like the first sign of failure right there.
“wait is there a physiological difference “
Very often,,,, flatter, rounder face.
Solly Chaaalie you tigah now!
Yes to body physiology, but malnourishment in childhood does play a role.
My Korean father-in-law and mother-in-law are well under five feet. My wife is a few inches shorter than my 5'4” height. My youngest niece who lives with us is already almost as tall as me, and will probably be taller when she finishes growing. It appears that Koreans are genetically capable of growing to moderate height; they just haven't had enough food to do so until the current generation. On the other hand, with my Italian genes, being 5'4” makes me about as tall as anyone in my extended family is likely to get.
Back to physiology and body types:
Ask yourself whether a Scandinavian and a Scotsman and a German and a Dutchman and a Frenchman and an Italian and a Greek look physically different, and you'll say, “obviously, yes” (at least on the extremes such as Scandinavian and Greek, less so in between those northern and southern European groups). It's the same way for different Asian ethnic groups. Just as virtually all Americans can tell the difference between most Italians and most Swedes, people familiar with Asians can usually tell the difference between Han Chinese, Korean and Japanese, and all of them look much different than Vietnamese or Laotian or Hmong or the various Indonesian groups. Of course, there's some shading there, especially with the huge size of China and some regionalization in Chinese ethnography over centuries or millenia.
The NORKS suck at missile technology. So did the Chicoms until Bubba Klinton, in need of campaign funds to keep his lying a$$ in office, gave them the technology and guidance systems they needed in exchange for a generous “contribution”. Now they can hit a gnat’s a$$ in downtown LA. Thanks Bubba - you lying impeached treasonous SOB!
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