N. Korea: State Media Publsihes Rocket Launch Photos and Video (shown inside)

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 04/07/09

[TigerLikesRooster]

For video, click the following link and scroll down
until you see a video frame and click it:
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/04/07/2009040702404.html

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[ETL]

[flying_bullet]

I thought for sure there would be an image of Kim Jong Il on the rocket somewhere.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Who knows? They might have put in a Kim Jong-il voodoo doll inside the payload.:-)

[DogBarkTree]

Now now youre not supposed to show that pic. Nice home page you have. A bit on the scarey side. Some nude pictures of Stanley Anne Dunham would lighten it up. http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/tag/stanley-anne-dunham-nude/

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Someone sent me those pics last week. If that is her, what a skank!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Japanese TV is showing, it, too, at THIS link HERE

About a 30 second video clip at that.

It is the North Korean flag on the side of that Taepondong-2, above the Korean characters for "Korea" (chosun).

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is nice that Japanese video shows the entire length of the rocket blasting off.

[AmericanInTokyo]

And the Japanese (leadership in some circles) is even bandying around some loose talk about "Nukes for Japan, Too" right here, including reference to Chief Cabinet Secretary Hosoda (Conservative LDP Party) today openly calling Condoleeza Rice and Chris Hill weak-kneed chickensh*ts over their brilliant legacy of negotiating skills with North Korea:

HERE TO LINK, HIT "ARROW" TO STREAM

Clip up for a limited time.

Some pretty pissed off folks I would say.

[AmericanInTokyo]

We need the usual FR missile analysts here on this thread, taking a look at these newly released videos of the North Korean ICBM targeting the USA last Sunday.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Bush Administration's CHRISTOPHER HILL (hint, he is the Westerner, on the left, shaking hands with the North Korean negotiator):

[evets]

"I've got pictures!" (With Reuter's photoshop!)

[tanuki]

Thanks very much for the posts, Tiger. I have been able to inform myself and many acquaintances with them.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Secretary Condi Rice with North Korean Counterpart Pak Ui-Chun (behind her, glasses) just getting down to a nice little chat and some friendly, "can we all get along?", mutual understanding.

[TigerLikesRooster]

They will come in time. They sniff it out from miles away.:-)
As for Japan, things may get rolling this time because public may be receptive to politicians plan. Chia Head may have managed to scare Japanese public above the threshold for real change in Japanese military posture.

[TigerLikesRooster]

She dropped completely out of news radar these days. Not that I care much, but I did notice.

[nufsed]

What is it she should be doing?

[fight_truth_decay]

Webpage of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

DPRK's Successful Launch of Satellite Kwangmyongsong-2

Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Scientists and technicians of the DPRK have succeeded in putting satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, an experimental communications satellite, into orbit by means of carrier rocket Unha-2 under the state long-term plan for the development of outer space.

Unha-2, which was launched at the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground in Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province at 11:20 on April 5, Juche 98 (2009), accurately put Kwangmyongsong-2 into its orbit at 11:29:02, nine minutes and two seconds after its launch.

The satellite is going round the earth along its elliptic orbit at the angle of inclination of 40.6 degrees at 490 km perigee and 1 426 km apogee. Its cycle is 104 minutes and 12 seconds.

Mounted on the satellite are necessary measuring devices and communications apparatuses.

The satellite is going round on its routine orbit.

It is sending to the earth the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and measured information at 470 MHz. By the use of the satellite the relay communications is now underway by UHF frequency band.

The satellite is of decisive significance in promoting the scientific researches into the peaceful use of outer space and solving scientific and technological problems for the launch of practical satellites in the future.

Carrier rocket Unha-2 has three stages.

The carrier rocket and the satellite developed by the indigenous wisdom and technology are the shining results gained in the efforts to develop the nation's space science and technology on a higher level.

The successful satellite launch symbolic of the leaping advance made in the nation's space science and technology was conducted against the background of the stirring period when a high-pitched drive for bringing about a fresh great revolutionary surge is under way throughout the country to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation without fail by 2012, the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, under the far-reaching plan of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. This is powerfully encouraging the Korean people all out in the general advance.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Prime Minister Aso, who was about as down in the polls you can get, even worse than "W", had his poll numbers "shoot up" (sorry for the pun), the minutes and hours and days after that thing left the launch pad. I think his numbers will continue to go up. Certainly the Japanese public is lurching HARD RIGHT over this--the are scared s-less--and today, even the Japan Socialist Party had to "abstain" in both the lower and upper houses on the condemnation that was issued overwhelmingly by both houses. (True to form, the Japan Communist Party voted outright "no".) ("Sure, North Korea, go ahead so we can be nuked a third time in our history")

BTW, did the US Congress or Senate express any resolution?