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North Korea Ballistic Missile Explodes On Launch Fourth Straight Time
Earlier this week, the state media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) broadcasted video of leader Kim Jong Un watching what appears to have been a successful launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. That was all fabricated, according to analysts. According to them, the launch actually took place in April. It is believed that the video was broadcasted as "an attempt to demonstrate North Korea's nuclear threat as a senior DPRK official meets with China this week." Ars Technica reports: The video was broadcast just after analyst reports said North Korea had made a fourth failed attempt in two months to test-launch the Musudan -- a missile designed to strike at targets as distant as Guam and the Philippines. The missile exploded on launch. Earlier on April 15, North Korea's military attempted a launch from a mobile launching system, but it exploded shortly after liftoff. Just two weeks later, as North Korea was preparing for the congress of the Worker's Party, there was an attempt at a dual launch -- with both missiles crashing into the sea.
Can't they just bootleg a copy of Photoshop?
is that North Korea has invented some sort of entropy rocket that can explode unpredictably at low altitude, only to emerge again quickly reassembled for a new flight. Its the ballistic equivalent of the US Republican party.
Good people go to bed earlier.
seems to be working quite well. I wonder if they are using the ship based or satellite based?
I imagine failure is not associated with longevity.
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...when technical decisions are made for political reasons.
At least, that is my assumption as to why they keep failing. I imagine that at every level of organization throughout the team building and launching these missiles, egos are driving people to hide mistakes that need correcting, to promote people with connections but not talent, to skip work in order to meet deadlines, etc.
They keeping making the warheads round, so they'll just bounce instead of exploding...
No doubt someone is up for execution for this embarrassing string of events. Problem is, the engineer(s) on the butcher block was/were probably their best. Un will wind up whittling down his rocket scientists to nothing.
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but they are likely learning from every failure.
I think we should be thanking the North Koreans for demonstrating that making ballistic missiles that actually work isn't easy.
This actually IS rocket science. Stick to starcraft.
explodes just like the dear leader after a particularly large and hearty meal of beans and cabbage.
Watching North Korea fail, and do so repeatedly is really funny. What is not funny is their determination. I note that others are suggesting that their rocket scientists are probably short-lived, as are their nuclear scientists. Nonsense. Kim Jong Un does offer special favors for those persons who are successful but a nuclear scientist or a rocket scientist are unlikely to challenge him or his heirs to government positions of power. They are scientists, not political operatives and, thus, are seen as commodities to be used, not existential challenges to be met.
The determination they are showing that they will do everything in their power, including starve their people, in order to produce weapons of mass-destruction is the real takeaway here. While I am happy at their repeated failures, I am not happy at their persistence.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
stick carrot
Now they just need to figure how to transport the unlaunched missiles to their targets in order to launch/detonate them on top of the running-dog imperialist lackeys they hate so much.
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North Koreans have small dongs.
I wonder how many scientists and generals are going to be shot THIS time. Or maybe they'll just round up and shoot all their families instead.
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How does DPRK deal with failure? Eventually they are going to lose patience with the people responsible for failure.
Do rocket scientists get reassigned to digging ditches, do they get executed, what happens to them?
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Got real punch!
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Trump's proposal to have Japan and South Korea go nuclear is the right response to this.
OK remind me again. Which day of the week is it that you are saying that Trump thinks a nuclear Japan is good? I've lost track of which side of the topic he is currently on.
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"Ha ha ha, silly North Koreans are so silly."
Meanwhile, they learn something new with each failure, and their nuclear weapons program takes another step forward. What were we laughing about again?
Sounds like someone is getting fired...and by "fired" I mean "literally burned alive".
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Sorry Kim Jong, but no matter how many times you try to un-watch the event, it won't change the fact that the missile exploded...
North Korea seem to be the Keystone Terrorists; they roar like a tiger and bite like a kitten.
considering how North Korea lises to kill people as punishment, I wouldn't be surprised if they have managed to run out of top rocket scientists.
That way, he can have a front-row seat to witness the Glorious Achievements of their Most Exalted Dear Leader.
I'm gonna laugh so hard if it turns out it's been some top secret directed energy project being tested by DARPA, having the gooks scrambling to find problems that don't exist.
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I'd have to look up the video clip, but I'm pretty sure he said Japan and NORTH Korea.
Of course, that was just one interview, who knows what he claimed in the next.
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It is believed that the video was broadcasted as "an attempt to demonstrate North Korea's nuclear threat as a senior DPRK official meets with China this week."
First, "boradcasted [sic]"? Really?
Anyhow, since they're trying to impress China, they should splice in movie clips, like China does. Maybe cut to Kim Jong Un, cut to stock footage of a Minuteman missile launching , back to Kim Jong Un smiling, then the clip from Independence Day when the White House blows up.
I bet the heads will be rolling tonight...
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This is a serious problem. The entire discussion in this article is circular auto-gratification. Why exactly is it in your interest to make fun of North Korea?
How exactly do you know North Korea exists to destroy everything you know and love? Why exactly is it so easy for you to be convinced of such things?
To be blunt: how exactly is it that you are so stupid to believe anything other the fact that North Korea gets a bad image in our media solely because the US lost a war to it and the interests of some astronomically wealthy businessmen suffered? How are you so stupid that you accept this opinion that has been slid into you mind exploiting the weakness of you wanting to fit in?
"OH YEAHHHHHH A NORTH KOREA STORY NOW I CAN REALLY SHOW THAT I FIT IN AND MAKE SOME GOOD JOKES AT NORTH KOREA'S EXPENSE AHAHHAHA TIME TO GET SWEET MOD POINTS FOR GOING WITH THE FLOW"
A country of incompetents or a determined country that has independently developed many technologies despite half the world shunning it: pick one.
Aren't you nerds supposed to be smart or something? Shame.
I agree. We should give North Korea all the nuclear weapons they can handle - one at a time, mounted on the top of used ICBM's.
to glue it back together after each time.
No one else has been able to develop a missile that has blown up more than once.
...the guys with the satellite laser are having the biggest laugh.
If anyone cares, here's some links of their launch efforts:
http://i.imgur.com/cCbdcOk.gif
http://i.imgur.com/V6oTG.gifv
http://i.imgur.com/6wq0ayk.gifv
We all laugh at their failures, and their pitiful nuclear weapons, BUT, they keep persisting, and sooner or later, they will perfect their issues, and they will have nuclear tipped ICBM's.
All under the watchful eye of Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc who have done quite literally NOTHING to get rid of this threat.
If you had a neighbor who kept telling you he was going to kill you one day, and he kept building handguns from scratch and his test fires go awry, you'd either call the cops or kill him first.
With their concentration camps, I'm actually appalled at the lack of politicians taking this threat seriously.
...on their own. Was there any thought put into the idea that some other weapon is causing the destruction of these missiles as they attempt the launch?
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a missile on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one, well that sank into the swamp too.
its so hot , WHY is it so HOT why is there no shadows, the sun is above the equator, there should always be a northern shadow , right?
Too bad that that fat slob from North Korea wasn't in the drivers seat when it blew up.
Worth every penny.
Ha-Ha, they don't ever know : )
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The North Koreans are miles ahead of anyone else in the size of the payload their fireworks can deliver.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.