Cheers!
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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“people familiar with Asians can usually tell the difference”
My Chinese lady friend says I’m very good at that. And the effects of nutrition on height are interesting. A friend and his wife, both from Shanghai, are short, yet both their American-born daughters are over 6 feet! And abdo-lute stunners!
After the provocations committed by the NKs over the past few years a shootdown of their 'weather satellite' rocket would more likely be met with worldwide applause than condemnation.
I have noticed that too. BTW, will the Samsung 500 be aired in South Korea, since one of their biggest companies sponsors it?
Yes, they had the window blinds open because they were supposed to stay on the right route. They had no orders about taking the memory cards I bet. "Let their own media show the glories of the Kim empire" was probably what they were told.
I was under the impression that Korea and the Chinese right over the Yallow River were pretty much the same people. Koreans even used the Chinese alphabet/writing until one of their Kings created a better one.
I understand its considered one of the best written languages even if the spoken language isn’t.
I also love watching Korean dramas online, with subtitles. With good subtitles... the bad ones are like Babelfish.
I wish more American girls looked like Park Shin-Hye!... er.. just saying.
Oh boy... if China gets too prosperous they won’t have room for the next generation of giants!
//sarcasm
Exactly right on mark!
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did you know that our free trade pact with South Korea includes the Kaesong Industrial Zone in North Korea?? We had free trade with NK, kind of, before Japan... weird.
No, I did not know this?
The Kaesong industrial area, read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region
Included in the free trade pact!
I am guessing it probably blew during staging , or failed to stage right and crashed.
Com 64 had a 6510.
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/04/14/2012041401181.html?news_Head1
Contrary to initial analysis,
(1) The rocket had explosion 80 seconds into flight at the altitude of 50km. It broke in two.
(2) The broken rocket still appeared to fly in one piece, until 2 min 15 sec into flight at which time two pieces started to separate at the altitude of 70.5 km. Initially experts believed that this was the time when the explosion occurred.
(3) In light of this new revelation, experts now believe that it is not the intentional abort or failure in the separation of 1st and 2nd stage boosters, which led to the breakup of the rocket, but the faulty design of 1st stage booster or a fuel leak.
Cheers!
Not easy to hit. Shielded from the Yellow (West) Sea by a mountain ridge between the Tongchanri launch site (pad and control center) and the sea. Makes a cruise missile strike difficult perhaps.
YTN TV news from ROK tonight showing from yesterday: A- DPRK rocket trail upon ascent with high powered tracking optics, and, B- Unha-3 debris splashing down in the ocean. I am certain the ROK Navy and Coast Guard could retrieve debris. Next will come a DPRK underground nuke test, and, perhaps, series of rapid fired Scuds and Nodongs into Sea of Japan toward Japan to show off and ‘change the subject’. Not to mention, further purges over the screw up and international loss is face.
They will retrieve most of debris, reassemble them and put it on display. It will attract lots of crowds, including military figures from many countries, including Israel.
Chicom TV (english) CCTV9 has been giving a lot of air time to Punky’s most excellent wocket adwenture-—Last night which would have been midday Saturday local time they reported both the ROKs and the Japanzees were out trash picking and that the ROKs had quite a few pieces awready. No mention so far that the NGooks were even looking-—probably couldn’t work it into their party schedule. Or maybe they’re a bit edgy about looking in someone elses water?
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