North Korea 'plans rocket launch'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

North Korea has announced that it is preparing to launch a rocket carrying a communications satellite.

It did not give a date for the launch, but said it would mark a great step forward for the communist state.

Correspondents say the statement is Pyongyang's clearest reference yet to what neighbours believe may be the imminent test of a long-range missile.

When it tested the Taepodong-1 missile in 1998, it claimed to have put a satellite in orbit.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7907039.stm

[TheWatcher]

1. AGAIN?!!!!!

Oh Kim Jong, That Trick NEVER Works!!!!!!

[DUlover2909]

2. Why do they need to announce it?

Just do it. Whatever.

[tclambert]

3. Because they don't want us to think they're nuking the South.

Of course, if they were, they'd probably claim they were just launching a comm satellite so as to make the surprise even sweeter. Could you imagine the look on people's faces when they realized it actually was a nuke and not a satellite? It would look like this: FLASH!

[Coventina]

4. North Korea says it will put satellite into orbit

Source: International Herald Tribune

SEOUL: North Korea announced on Tuesday that it was preparing to shoot a satellite into orbit, in a launching that U.S. and South Korean officials have said would be a provocative test of the North's longest-range missile.

The North's announcement came days after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of the United States and Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan of South Korea urged it not to carry out the threatened launching, saying that the move would be "very unhelpful."

During her visit to Seoul last week, Clinton characterized the North Korean government's rule as "tyranny" but offered to normalize relations and provide economic assistance if Pyongyang abandoned its nuclear weapons program. Officials in the region were eagerly awaiting the North Korean response when the announcement came on Tuesday.

"The preparations for launching experimental communications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 by means of delivery rocket Unha-2 are now making brisk headway," North Korea's Committee of Space Technology said in a statement carried by the state-run news agency, KCNA. It was the first official confirmation by North Korea of its activities at a missile-launching base at Musudan-ri, on its east coast.



Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/24/asia/korea.1-436546.php

[Doctor_J]

5. No doubt using 3 days' worth of Kim's flatulence

:eyes:

[Crowman1979]

6. Yeah, and it will become flaccid and fall into the sea like all of his other Dongs.

Seems that North Korea doesn't know how to make sex toys...oops I mean rockets very well.