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North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the transmitting-a-message-of-sorts dept.

Mad Ivan writes "The BBC has just reported that North Korea has launched a long-range rocket, which they say is a communications satellite, but that the US and Japan fear may actually be a ballistic missile. Details are still arriving; the rocket passed over northern Japan on its way up."

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  1. Re:Outstanding. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The point of the UN isn't to make and enforce international laws. It is only to provide a forum for discussion among nations. In that regard the UN has been quite successful.