Matt Drudge beat them to it.............
Posted on 08/04/2016 6:12:09 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea's new satellite mission aims for the moon, and beyond
The North has asserted that international sanctions cannot stop Pyongyang's satellite programme to put its flag on the moon.
By Nandini Krishnamoorthy
August 4, 2016 12:10 BST
North Korea is now reportedly hoping to see its flag fly up on the moon in a decade's time. The space officials in the Kim Jong-un ruled nation are said to be working on a five-year plan to put more advanced satellites into orbit by 2020.
Aiming for the moon and beyond, a senior official at the North's version of NASA told AP news agency that no one, including the international sanctions, can stop Pyongyang's satellite mission for the next 10 years.
Hyon Kwang II from the North's National Aerospace Development Administration said: "Even though the U.S. and its allies try to block our space development, our aerospace scientists will conquer space and definitely plant the flag of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) on the moon."
He added that the five-year plan would be focus on launching earth observation satellites "to solve communications problems by developing geostationary satellites. All of this work will be the basis for the flight to the moon."
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P!
Their Sun mission a few years ago was a smash!
Is sending people to the moon a new execution method?
I can see it now, North Korea puts one of those very odd giant hats their officers wear on the moon.
Is sending people to the moon a new execution method?
Matt Drudge beat them to it.............
When Kim Jung was asked how a mission to the sun could be possible without burning up, he replied "No probrem, we go at nighttime".
or as our friends among us and to the south of us would call it, "nada"
fearless prediction: the project will crater
May they all become prisoners of the Klingons.
LOL ... I needed that...
In other words, an emp over USA
Then their next trip will be to go to Uranus and wipe out the Klingons!!
Yeah. They can’t even feed themselves.
Maybe they can bum a ride from the Russians, which is our manned space program at the moment.
I have never understood the difficulties the Federation had with Klingons; I would have simply fired Bounce sheets at them.
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