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So y’all know about the missile launched by North Korea right?  I was watching the Korean news with my mom on Saturday and the media was a goin crazy about it.  Of course to me the newscaster sounded like “;kljwerjklsflksleimissilelsbookhan”

My mom explained what they were saying and she said that North Korea was claiming that they had launched a satellite because they needed to be able to have one just like other countries.  However, in order for it to be a satellite, at the tip of the missile, there needs to be an actual satellite in there that they’re trying to launch but it is doubtful that there was one.  If there is no satellite and if there’s anything else in the tip of the missile then it just simply becomes….a missile.  I feel like I just explained Missiles/Satellites for Dummies but… it helps me understand anyway.  

This image provided by DigitalGlobe and made available in London by Jane’s Defence Weekly, shows what is believed to be the exhaust trail and vehicle launched from Musudan-ni, North Korea.

“North Korea’s state media claimed Tuesday, April 7, 2009 that a rocket launch seen overseas largely as a technical failure will propel the country to greatness, while moves at the United Nations to punish Pyongyang remained mired in a lack of consensus. North Korea launched Sunday what it claims was a satellite that successfully entered orbit around the earth, defying international warnings that the move would violate U.N. resolutions and invite further censure.”

What will happen next?  Why is North Korea so delusional?  This is not a success.  But one thing I am amazed at is the fact that though they have such ridiculous thinking – believing Kim Il Sung created the world, saved North Korea,black outs are caused by American raids and not b/c of North Korean poverty etc. – they still have enough valid scientific knowledge to make rockets/missiles/etc.  Dude I bet rocket makers are like political gems.  Or maybe not.  Who knows.