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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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A: Look for the fat guy.
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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I don't think it matters what Taepodong they have if they can't get their 'dong up...
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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".
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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.
Correct, it's South Korea that has the major Starcraft Players.
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.
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.
Indeed, it does seem to be unwise to be the only fat guy in the country AND a likely primary target of any attack. I'd think you'd like to keep your footprint from satellite/drone view to be about the median in this case. Maybe the Fear Leader will realize this and require everyone to wear those goofy sumo wrestler suits around (only to discover the drones also have IR cameras and the big layer of insulation around everyone but him makes them have an even smaller signature - oh well, tough [!!BOOM!!]).
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I bet the heads will be rolling tonight...
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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.
How exactly do you know North Korea exists to destroy everything you know and love?
Because North Korea is trying to build nuclear bombs and missiles that can reach North America.
Last time I checked, Mexico and Belgium weren't working hard to try to figure out how to drop a bomb on my head.
No one else has been able to develop a missile that has blown up more than once.
You are completely missing the point.
How do you know?
How do you know you know, so to speak?
Most importantly, how do you know you can trust what you've heard?
How do you know they intend to launch bombs onto the US? Did you miss grade-school? Didn't you have discussions about the implications of nuclear warfare? Namely, retaliation?
Obviously no one is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. The resources are too scarce across the world; they are entirely accounted for, therefore 1) only entities of power that have resources spread across countries (namely, governments) have nuclear weapons and 2) everyone knows everyone who has them, so there is no question of where to retaliate in kind. And there seems to be no way to counter such retaliation.
So to fill in your grade-school education, nuclear weapons exist only to establish countries as legitimate, that is, they must be shown enough respect and allowed enough space to live. You can't take everything from them or else they will lose their interest in the world and hold everyone else to the same fate.
Nuclear weapons are one of the few things in the world ensuring any kind of justice for less dominant peoples.
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What for? These North Koreans have demonstrated one thing for sure: they know how to build a sturdy ballistic missile: it explodes three times in a row and it's still ready to explode the forth time!
To also be blunt: North Korea gets a bad image in media because there's nothing nice about North Korea. It's a country-sized concentration camp led by a succession of particularly nasty dicators who's only interest or competence is taking all power and wealth for themselves.
Kim Whatever is basically the archetypal robber baron elevated to the status of a king.
A prison camp who's warden has his victims build weapons based on technology that's sufficiently outdated everywhere else to be declassified. And they seem to be failing even at that.
Smart enough to notice an obvious shill.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Worth every penny.
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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.
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.
oh heck, i don't even know north korea exists at all.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
"oh heck, i don't even know north korea exists at all."
yes, exactly. You're that fucking stupid. Actually it goes way beyond stupidity to the realm of cognitive disability.
The definition of North Korea you have in your head is contrary to the actual substance of a national government. If what you thought was true, North Korea would never have existed, let alone beat the US's expedition against it.
Meanwhile you completely ignore my point because you know you blindly trust a source of information that constantly lies to you, you know you're stupid at best, and you are terrified of dealing with the truth. You are the problem with the world.
You can get back to me when the North Korean people have freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom to vote, equality rights and the rule of law. When they do, you can explain to me how the poor tyrant Kim Jung Un is just misunderstood and how I just have a grade-school education. Until then....