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North Korea tells people launch is “shining product of self-reliance”
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In clear contrast to the news from the rest of the world, the Korean Central News Agency, the state-run agency of North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK,) says the country successfully put a satellite into outer space. According to one KCNA report, the satellite is “going round on its routine orbit.”
It is sending to the earth the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and measured information at 470 MHz. By the use of the satellite the relay communications is now underway by UHF frequency band.
The satellite is of decisive significance in promoting the scientific researches into the peaceful use of outer space and solving scientific and technological problems.
According to reports, the Pentagon says the North Korean missile test was a failure on two fronts; the ‘satellite’ never made it to orbit, with both the second and third stages of the rocket falling into the Pacific ocean, and the fact the North Koreans wouldn’t be able to try and sell their missile technology if they can’t get it to work themselves.
"Would you buy from somebody that had failed three times in a row and never been successful?" Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
According to Charles Vick, a senior technical analyst with Globalsecurity.org, Pyongyang doesn’t appear to use a traditional incremental approach to working out problems in the design and launch program. Instead, its scientists cobble together different stages and start over with a relatively fresh model each time, introducing new possibilities for error. "They are going to get at that very quickly," Vick said. "They are learning from each test."
"If you have multiple changes and the thing fails, which one worked and which ones didn't?" said Geoffrey Forden, an arms control expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Vick believes a new North Korea test of the same model, the Taeopodong-2, roughly equivalent to a U.S. Titan missile, is likely by the end of summer.
The so-called North Korean ‘news agency,’ which is nothing more than a propaganda tool for the communist regime, continues to lie to the people of North Korea. The trouble is, they don’t really know it’s a lie because it’s their only source of information. If the average citizen in North Korea really knew what was the rest of the world was like, we wouldn’t have to worry about the DPRK attacking anyone because it would implode the same way East Germany did.
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