What’s interesting is that the new nork leader invited all kinds of media into his kingdom to witness the launch.
Usually, they don’t allow any media in case of a failure such as this. Don’t want the possibility of losing face.
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That foreign press corpse that Punky invited in were hostages-—— to keep everyone else from shooting the roman candle on its launch pad.
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.