ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korea-launches-long-range-missile/story?id=17939423#.UMgMK-T7IhQ

 

Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-launches-long-range-missile-015602333--abc-news-topstories.html

 

 

In a nutshell:

-First successful launch of a long range missile from North Korea into space. 

-Rocket launched only a short time before the elections in South Korea (show of strength?)

-North Korea justifies the launch as it's right to have a peaceful space program

-NATO suspicious of true nature of launch. 

Edited December 12, 201212 yr by Amon

i coulda sworn i just read something about it crashing

Saw about this a little bit ago.

I'm not sure if this is a bad thing. What if they send one up and it is up in space for a little bit then comes down and targets somewhere. Or if it fails and crashes somewhere.

Worrying.

Saw about this a little bit ago.I'm not sure if this is a bad thing. What if they send one up and it is up in space for a little bit then comes down and targets somewhere. Or if it fails and crashes somewhere.Worrying.

-aaaand falls back down December 21st lol jk

I don't think it's really got much to do with having a peaceful space program. The way I see it, there's two possibilities: The first is that the satellite is for spying. The second is the more popular opinion that it's a cover-up for a long range missile test. From either option they have something to gain. From sending out a satellite just to gather information, there is no benefit to North Korea. There's nothing there that would justify upsetting the world community this way, not to mention if they want information, most of what we've located in space is publicly available. So, yeah, either way, this isn't good. I'm sure we'll find out what they're actually planning soon enough.

firetruck the reason to be honest. The UN forbid NK from doing any long range missile testing. And how much they actually do remains to be seen (or someone responded and I missed it, I'm at school alright )

that's some noob news.Anyways,might as well it hit at their own homeland... O3O (sorry for those who LIVED there...)

Edited December 12, 201212 yr by Hazimie

i coulda sworn i just read something about it crashing

 

The most recent rocket they tested crashed during launch. During this test the successfully deployed a satellite into space. 

 

 

 

Saw about this a little bit ago.

I'm not sure if this is a bad thing. What if they send one up and it is up in space for a little bit then comes down and targets somewhere. Or if it fails and crashes somewhere.

Worrying.

 

 

There is nothing to worry about. It's one thing to launch a rocket into space, making that rocket come back down and hit something you want it to hit is much harder.

 

 

I don't think it's really got much to do with having a peaceful space program. The way I see it, there's two possibilities: The first is that the satellite is for spying. The second is the more popular opinion that it's a cover-up for a long range missile test. From either option they have something to gain. From sending out a satellite just to gather information, there is no benefit to North Korea. There's nothing there that would justify upsetting the world community this way, not to mention if they want information, most of what we've located in space is publicly available. So, yeah, either way, this isn't good. I'm sure we'll find out what they're actually planning soon enough.

 

 

It is in all likely hood a covert nuclear missile test. North Korea has a small stock of nuclear bombs now and all they needed to deliver them was a rocket. If they can get a rocket carrying a satellite into space, they can get a rocket with a nuclear bomb into South Korea or Japan. 

 

 

firetruck the reason to be honest. The UN forbid NK from doing any long range missile testing. And how much they actually do remains to be seen (or someone responded and I missed it, I'm at school alright )

 

They don't claim it's a missile test, it's just their right to have a space program (even if it is a missile test). And nobody cares what the UN forbids, the UN has no power or relevance and never did. 

It is in all likely hood a covert nuclear missile test. North Korea has a small stock of nuclear bombs now and all they needed to deliver them was a rocket. If they can get a rocket carrying a satellite into space, they can get a rocket with a nuclear bomb into South Korea or Japan. 

I think hitting us would be closer on the list. You think hitting SK would be what they do, but even Kim Jong Un isn't stupid enough to fire a nuke SO close to themselves (or is he?, most of they're government officials aren't too fond of him anyway)

I think hitting us would be closer on the list. You think hitting SK would be what they do, but even Kim Jong Un isn't stupid enough to fire a nuke SO close to themselves (or is he?, most of they're government officials aren't too fond of him anyway)

 

They would certainly love to hit us, no doubt about that. But the strength of nuclear weapons is heavily overestimated. No doubt they are the most powerful weapons ever conceived by man. The Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated in history (by the USSR, of course) if detonated in Seoul (South Korean Capitol) would flatten buildings in North Korea by the border, and cause Third Degree burns in the capital city of North Korea (Pyongyang). 

 

However North Korea does not have a bomb of that size. They do have a bomb similar to the bombs America dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb wouldn't be able to completely destroy Seoul, but given the population density of the city, would still lead to massive death tolls, which is why North Korea needs to be carefully watched. 

They would certainly love to hit us, no doubt about that. But the strength of nuclear weapons is heavily overestimated. No doubt they are the most powerful weapons ever conceived by man. The Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated in history (by the USSR, of course) if detonated in Seoul (South Korean Capitol) would flatten buildings in North Korea by the border, and cause Third Degree burns in the capital city of North Korea (Pyongyang). 

 

However North Korea does not have a bomb of that size. They do have a bomb similar to the bombs America dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb wouldn't be able to completely destroy Seoul, but given the population density of the city, would still lead to massive death tolls, which is why North Korea needs to be carefully watched. 

I would go as far as saying that the test it self was a "show of power". There current missile doesn't look like it can compact a nuke, so I think they are still in the initial testing phase 50 years later than us but who's counting

*Raises eyebrown

 

That's suspicious.

I'm not gonna go paranoid and say they are spying or preparing some war-thingamajig from space. If they want to lunch a rocket from space, then let them be. Nobody owns space and they can do anything to it, but It's also North Korea and we still don't know much anything about them. Anything can go wrong and right. =/

I'm not gonna go paranoid and say they are spying or preparing some war-thingamajig from space. If they want to lunch a rocket from space, then let them be. Nobody owns space and they can do anything to it, but It's also North Korea and we still don't know much anything about them. Anything can go wrong and right. =/

Obviously the war was a key to leads the apocalypse...

Obviously the war was a key to leads the apocalypse...

JENG! JENG! JENG!!

That's interesting

Hmmmm, I wonder what is really going on.

Crash? Yup preety much Crash... Sorry Korea!