Maxim Duncan and Ju-min Park
Reuters
April 13, 2012
North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt.
The isolated North, using the launch to celebrate the 100th birthday of the dead founding president Kim Il-sung and mark the rise to power of his grandson Kim Jong-un, is now widely expected to press ahead with its third nuclear test to show its military strength.
“The possibility of an additional long-range rocket launch or a nuclear test, as well as a military provocation to strengthen internal solidarity is very high,” a senior South Korean defense ministry official told a parliamentary hearing.
The two Koreas are divided by the world’s most militarized border and remain technically at war after an armistice ended the Korean War in 1953.
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No test is a failure as long as you learn from your mistakes.
It took a hundred tries to make the V-2 work but eventually they succeeded.
And those efforts are what our Apollo program were based on.
I say go for it! Chances are very good they will blow themselves up.
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there they go again, reminds me of BILL OREILLY fear mongring.
when it’s not Iran, then they will try North Korea
or what ever country they want to invade.
propaganda is like a stool pigeon???????????