North Korea Rocket Launch Fails

TehJarVu SG

die, ego bruised. wat's next.

gunner77 SG

the one who laugh the loudest will get a surprise next.

for all you know, this is just smokescreen.

Mr Milo SG

一代不如一代

哈哈哈

QX179R SG

N. Korea developing new long-range missile: report

SEOUL: North Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate programme from the one that led to a failed rocket launch this week, a South Korean TV station reported Saturday.

YTN quoted an intelligence source as saying the communist state carried out four tests over 16 weeks until early this year to develop an inter-continental missile at a test facility at Musudan-ri on the northeastern coast.

The tests were aimed at improving engines and propellant fuel for the missile, code-named KN-08, the source said.

The experiments took place amid ongoing talks with the United States that resulted in a February deal under which the North agreed to freeze its nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for food aid, YTN said.

AFP was unable immediately to confirm the story independently.

North Korea, which admitted its long-range rocket launch failed Friday, has been developing missiles for decades both for what it terms self-defence and as a lucrative export commodity.

It said Friday's launch was aimed at putting a peaceful satellite in orbit.

But the United States and its allies condemned what they see as an apparent disguised test of ballistic missile technology in defiance of UN resolutions.

Washington has halted plans to send food aid to Pyongyang.

- AFP/wm

lce SG

alamak, ppl always see at face valve

NK oridi launched many rockets / missile , no ppl see her intention?

扮猪吃老虎

QX179R SG

Japan voices fears over N. Korea nuke test

TOKYO: A senior Japanese defence official on Saturday urged "crisis-management measures" ahead of a possible nuclear test by North Korea after its humiliating failure to launch a rocket.

The launch was supposed to be the centrepiece of weekend commemorations marking the centenary of the birth of North Korean founding leader Kim Il-Sung, and helping to formalise a new cult of personality around Kim Jong-Un.

But the rocket flew for just over two minutes before it broke up and fell into the Yellow Sea, with the North admitting a satellite had failed to enter orbit.

"We'd better keep in mind that they may conduct a nuclear test," Senior Vice Minister of Defence Shu Watanabe told a weekly news programme on the private TV Tokyo network.

"We must prepare crisis-management measures by remembering that they will surely do something in order to restore their damaged dignity," he said, amid fears that Pyongyang will hold another nuclear test.

Analysts say satellite imagery showing what looks like preparations, and the communist regime's previous patterns of behaviour -- with missile tests followed by bomb tests -- suggest a third nuclear test could be imminent.

North Korea has said its rocket launch was a peaceful attempt to put a satellite into orbit but the United States, South Korea and Japan have condemned it as a poorly disguised ballistic missile test.

Watanabe said countries should not have high hopes for change under Kim Jong-Un, who inherited the regime from his father Kim Jong-Il, who died in December.

"We'd better not have hopes for the man, Kim Jong-Un," the vice minister said.

"The man is just a beginner of brinksmanship diplomacy. The cronies from the Kim Jong-Il era choreograph him. The country will continue to be a source of global instability even after its leaders changed," he said.

"What we should fear is that they may go ahead with missile and nuclear tests again even though the technologies are inadequate," he said.

- AFP/al

mancha SG

Shit happens, to anyone.

Dalforce 1941 SG

April 16 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea won't be bullied by its nuclear-armed enemies, third-generation dictator Kim Jong Un said in his first public address at a military parade as South Korea warned that his regime may conduct an atomic test.

Dressed in a dark Mao suit and standing on a podium high above Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang yesterday, the new leader said, "the days of enemies threatening and blackmailing us with nuclear weapons are forever over." Goose-stepping soldiers, mobile rocket launchers and tanks rumbled through the streets below in a celebration broadcast on state television.

North Korea's humiliation from a long-range rocket that disintegrated within minutes of liftoff two days earlier increases the chance of Kim ordering an atomic test to regain face, South Korean Deputy Defense Minister Lim Kwan Bin said on April 13. The launch also ended a U.S. food-aid deal.

"Kim is very aware of how powerful the military is and knows his only strategy is to keep selling the 'military-first' policy," said Koh Yu Hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Seoul's Dongguk University. "Stability is what the young Kim needs most and he needs the full support of the military."

The parade was broadcast on North Korean state television and held to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Kim's late grandfather, state founder Kim Il Sung. The younger Kim is thought to be less than 30 years old and assumed power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died of a heart attack on Dec. 17.

Ballistic Missile

It also featured what appeared to be a new, larger ballistic missile, said Baek Seung Joo, who studies Pyongyang's military at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. South Korea's Defense Ministry was unable to comment on the design or whether it was a real missile.

North Korea, which technically remains at war with the South since their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty, has 1.2 million people in its armed forces and has twice detonated an atomic device, in 2006 and 2009.

"In order to realize our goal of building a socialist, strong and prosperous nation, we must first, second and third strengthen the people's army on all fronts," said Kim, who shuffled his feet as he read from notes. "We have grown into a powerful military, equipped with our own means of defense and attack in any modern war."

He didn't mention the rocket launch or his regime's atomic weapons program during the speech, which lasted 20 minutes. While North Korea said the launch was intended to put a satellite into orbit, the U.S. said it violated United Nations Sanctions 1718 and 1874, which ban any usage of ballistic missile and nuclear technologies.

Washington scrapped the February plan to provide 240,000 tons of food aid after the rocket was fired...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/04/16/bloomberg_articlesM2IS3F0D9L3501-M2KFD.DTL

By Bruce Cumings

North Korea won't be bullied by its nuclear-armed enemies, third-generation dictator Kim Jong Un said in his first public address at a military parade as South Korea warned that his regime may conduct an atomic test.

Mr Milo SG

I rather everyone stop funnneling aid to the North Korean govt

starve it of cash, parts

see how long it can continue with its tyrannical ways

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_9NJZVRXw

mancha SG

Dalforce 1941 SG

For Revolutionary Reunification of Korea!

http://www.internationalist.org/northkoreawarneverended1012.html

Mr Milo SG

Seriously, why does everyone keep tolerating North Korea?

Push it to self collapse better

the Bear SG

Seriously, why does everyone keep tolerating North Korea?

Push it to self collapse better

everyone should just treat it as if it doesn't exist... and if the idiots try to shoot rockets out, a few anti-ballistic missiles should do the trick...

then just ignore them again...

until everything goes to shit or Kim Jong Un runs out of cake

Mr Milo SG

Cake?

Go toilet can make lots of cake leh

Red, Brown, Green also got

Dalforce 1941 SG

Seriously, why does everyone keep tolerating North Korea?

Same as why everybody tolerate Israel?

the Bear SG

more successful launch

QX179R SG

North Korea demanded Thursday that South Korea apologise for what it called insults during major anniversary festivities, or face a "sacred war", as Seoul unveiled a new missile to deter its neighbour.

Regional tensions have risen since Pyongyang went ahead with a long-range rocket launch last Friday, defying international calls to desist.

The event was to have been a centrepiece of celebrations marking the 100th anniversary Sunday of the "Day of the Sun", the birthday of Kim Il-Sung who founded the communist nation and the dynasty which still rules it.

But the rocket, which the North said was designed to launch a satellite, disintegrated after some two minutes of flight.

"The puppet regime of traitors must apologise immediately for their grave crime of smearing our Day of Sun festivities," said a government statement on Pyongyang's official news agency.

Otherwise, it said, the North Korean people and military "will release their volcanic anger and stage a sacred war of retaliation to wipe out traitors on this land".

The North has several times demanded that the South apologise for perceived slights or face war since its longtime leader Kim Jong-Il died in December. Under his son and new leader Kim Jong-Un, it has struck a hostile tone with the South.

South Korea announced Thursday it has deployed new cruise missiles capable of destroying targets such as missile and nuclear bases anywhere in the North.

"With such capabilities, our military will sternly and thoroughly punish reckless provocations by North Korea while maintaining our firm readiness," Major General Shin Won-Sik told reporters.

Yonhap news agency said the new cruise missile could travel more than 1,000 kilometres (625 miles).

Cross-border tensions have been high since conservative President Lee Myung-Bak took office in Seoul in 2008 and scrapped a near-unconditional aid policy.

"If our power is strong, we can deter enemy provocations," Lee said Thursday, describing the North as "the world's most hostile force".

The North hit back at critical comments by Lee and by conservative media, which questioned the overall cost of the celebrations in a nation suffering acute food shortages.

Lee had said the estimated $850 million cost of the launch could have bought 2.5 million tons of corn.

"Traitor Lee Myung-Bak took the lead in vituperation during the festivities," said a joint statement by the North's government, party and social groups.

"This is an intolerable insult to our leader, system and people and a hideous provocation that sparked seething anger among the whole people."

The North said its only aim was to launch a peaceful satellite, but the United States and its allies said this was a flimsy excuse for a test by the nuclear-armed nation of ballistic missile technology.

On Monday the United Nations Security Council including Pyongyang's ally China strongly condemned the launch. Washington said it also breached a bilateral deal and suspended plans for food aid.

The North has warned of unspecified retaliation. Some experts believe it will conduct a new nuclear test or further long-range missile tests, while others predict a border clash with the South.

An unrepentant Pyongyang last Sunday displayed an apparently new medium-range missile at a parade featuring thousands of goose-stepping troops and almost 900 pieces of weaponry.

A leading defence journal said Thursday that UN officials are investigating whether China supplied technology for its launcher vehicle, in a possible breach of UN sanctions.

IHS Jane's Defence Weekly quoted a senior official close to a United Nations Security Council sanctions committee as saying that an associated panel of experts was "aware of the situation and will pursue enquiries".

IHS Janes's reported earlier that China appeared to have supplied either the design or the actual vehicle to the North.

It said the 16-wheel transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) is apparently based on a design from the 9th Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.

China said it had actively abided by UN resolutions while practising "strict export control of proliferation materials".

"China is always against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the carrier equipment for such weapons," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in Beijing.

Mr Milo SG

Their patience with the North is thinning out

xreVengex SG

haha what n.korea have done is just plain wasting time and they have completely thrown away their "face" liao

Mr Milo SG

On the other hand, a hugely embarassed North Korea might just launch an attack on South Korea

and which will eventually lead to defeat and more humiliation

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