Posted on 04/28/2016 5:52:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
he South Korean defense ministry announced that an attempted test launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea ended when it exploded almost immediately after liftoff. The launch was the second test of the Musudan intermediate range missile in the last few days that ended in failure.
The South Koreans believe that the test was rushed in order to have some sort of technological success prior to a rare meeting of the Party Congress on May 6.
From Reuters:
"They are in a rush to show anything that is successful, to meet the schedule of a political event, the party congress," said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum and a policy adviser to the South Korean navy.
"They need to succeed but they keep failing. They didn't have enough time to fix or technically modify the system, but just shot them because they were in hurry," he said.
Thursday's apparent failure marks another setback for the North's young leader Kim Jong Un. A similar missile launched on the April 15 birthday of his grandfather, the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, exploded in what the U.S. Defense Department called a "fiery, catastrophic" failure.
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Unfortunately, they had a successful solid-fuel submarine-launched missile test.
P*ssing away money while the people starve.
Nice.
They even tried a more robust launching stick and different paper in the fuse. Still ... no ruck.
Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya. Dat wut Big Dong Chink say too.
I can see Kim saying to his scientists; “If your missile fails the test, you end up as a passenger on the next one.” Eventually they’ll run out of rocket scientists.
Sounds like they may have already.
I just love when this happens.
It dun blew
With any luck,the next launching will fall back on Kim’s fat head.
Locket go clash in ocean!
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