North Korea to launch satellite

[breadcatcher101]

"Liftoff will take place between April 12th and 16th."

Must be a slow-moving thing, huh? I mean four days to reach orbit??

I wouldn't worry too much about it. :D

[CaptainMattJ.]

perhaps a link would be a nice addition to your claims? :)

[breadcatcher101]

Sure.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/15/north-korea-announces-plan-to-launch-satellite/?test=latestnews

[Jimbuna]

Well the eyes of the world will be upon them...here's hoping it doesn't suffer a spectacular launch disaster :DL

[krashkart]

Will they find more fish up there? :hmm2:

[Jimbuna]

Possibly :hmmm:

http://wfiles.brothersoft.com/f/f_s/fish_in_space-480x360.jpg

[Oberon]

"Liftoff will take place between April 12th and 16th."

Must be a slow-moving thing, huh? I mean four days to reach orbit??

I wouldn't worry too much about it. :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Replica_catapult.jpg
North Korean launch mechanism

Meanwhile in Seoul

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Baseball_catcher.jpg/300px-Baseball_catcher.jpg

[TLAM Strike]

Maybe it can team up with the air conditioner Iran sent in to orbit a month or two back. (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=192141)

[Jimbuna]

Early satellite photo showing her on the launch pad.

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/4705/rocketj.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/rocketj.jpg/)

[darius359au]

Why am I thinking this things going to be more ballistic than up and "Crash" somewhere very close to South Korea ? ,or have I got a nasty nasty suspicious mind and dear/beloved whatever leader is just wanting to search the world for Pie with his new satellite?

[Stealhead]

Little err I mean Fat Kim heard that the moon was made of cheese so why not send a rocket to find out what kind?Next they will send a moon cheese rover to collect some and bring it back.

[Gargamel]

The problem is, this is in direct violation of the nuclear arms / food deal they just worked out.

[Stealhead]

That has never made sense to me with these food deals with the DPROK they always end up violating what ever they agreed to.Yet we keep making these agreements with them.:hmmm:

I understand that the food supposedly helps feed people.I am pretty sure only the ones favored by the government get any of the food and/or they use it as a way to have control.So by giving these jokers (the government food) are we not just keeping them in power surely they do not tell the public there in order to keep grip on power they probably portray it as "The Great Leader made the Imperialist dogs give us more food with his mighty great leader powers though the might of our great military".It seems to me that giving them the food just keeps them in power more and they still behave in a belligerent manner in defiance of agreements.

Whose to say they do not just make a demand "Give us x tons of food or we invade South Korea" (stipulation that 20 tons of Little Debbie cakes be included)

[JSLTIGER]

(stipulation that 20 tons of Little Debbie cakes be included)

Hey now, Kim Jong Un needs something to maintain his girlish (or would that be boyish?) figure... :O:

[TLAM Strike]

The problem is, this is in direct violation of the nuclear arms / food deal they just worked out.

nuclear arms covers space rockets? :hmmm:

If they launch a nuclear powered rocket I'm defecting. :O:

[Gargamel]

nuclear arms covers space rockets? :hmmm:

If they launch a nuclear powered rocket I'm defecting. :O:

The deal included no missile testing.

[Platapus]

It would be interesting to see the wording of this agreement. The devil is in the details.

[Oberon]

It would be interesting to see the wording of this agreement. The devil is in the details.

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/sc9679.doc.htm

That's, I believe, the UNSC resolution that the DPRK is breaching in this instance. It's not directly tied into the US food aid proposal, however in the same year that resolution 1874 went into action the DPRK expelled US food monitors, which ended the food aid program.

[Jimbuna]

Righteooooooo....simply send em boiled rice instead of the fried variety :O:

[Madox58]

The deal included no missile testing.

A rocket launch is not considered a missle.
I'd rather any food export We were going to send them included the term...
"Lite anything stronger then a bottle rocket? You all go hungry!"

[Platapus]

The deal is between the US and the DPRK so I don't think the wording of the UNSC would be what we need.

Unfortunately, it is uncommon for State to release such information. Makes it easier to just tell the press what State wants to be disseminated. :D

[RickC Sniper]

Well, SOMEBODY thinks it violates the agreement.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/north-korea-satellite-launch/index.html

"At the time of the food aid agreement, under which North Korea would receive 240,000 metric tons of foodstuffs, the United States told Pyongyang that such a launch would be contrary to the accord, Nuland said."

"The DPRK announcement talks about a satellite launch," Nuland said. "However, as we know, it requires the use of missile technology to launch a satellite, and it's the use of the missile technology that is an explicit violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874. So it's a matter of semantics. ... They say they're launching a satellite. We say 'you're launching it with ballistic missile technology, which the U.N. Security Council resolutions have explicitly precluded.' "

[Gargamel]

That ^ is what I was referring to.

[Oberon]

Bump to include these pictures of the epic North Korean launch control room:

http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-control-002.jpg

http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-control-001.jpg

http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-control-005.jpg

http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-010.jpg


With such grandeur as this, how could the launch go wrong?

http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-001.jpg

[nikimcbee]

Bump to include these pictures of the epic North Korean launch control room:







http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-010.jpg


With such grandeur as this, how could the launch go wrong?

http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-001.jpg


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gG6Zq8UoMpY/Tzjx_xH-CXI/AAAAAAAALc8/AP_HkNbKg0g/s1600/itsonlyamodel.jpg

It's only a model.

[Krauter]

Also..

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/08/north-korea-rocket-unha-3/

Japan deploys missile batteries as North Korea readies long-range rocket

TONGCHANG-RI SPACE CENTRE, North Korea — North Korea’s Unha-3 long-range rocket was on its launch platform Sunday as the regime insisted again that it is part of a peaceful space program and not a disguised ballistic missile, as the U.S. claims.

[Jimbuna]

Go Japan :rock:

[nikimcbee]

Go Japan :rock:
Ready!

Fight!

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02154/north-korea_2154481b.jpg




VS



http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/19827/_1280162644.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/03/23/141611423.jpg

[TLAM Strike]

http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-010.jpg



"Attention! Attention! Everyone in the room; we are preparing to launch the rocket!"

:doh:

[darius359au]

Those photo's look more like a case of "Oh hells ,we forgot to set up a mission control for the media ,quick knock one up from any spare office stuff we've got laying around before they get here"...

[soopaman2]

Have they even figured out how to get the medium range missiles working yet?

They can't even hit Japan much less reach escape velocity.

Propaganda for Kim Jongs fat-assed little class skipping Napoleon.

He has to prove to daddy China he hates the west as much as daddy did. Or else they will take his power away in the UN, by actually voting against them for once.

I will bet he will "ramp down" his rhetoric (bullcrap) when the US taxpayer sends him food, like we always did with daddy Kim.

Yeah, the circle of life repeats itself.

[krashkart]

I think they'll have better luck at catching fish with that rocket than I have with anything in my tackle box. :stare:

[Platapus]

They can't even hit Japan much less reach escape velocity.



Generally speaking reaching escape velocity is not desired in launching a satellite intended to orbit the earth. :)

[krashkart]

Generally speaking reaching escape velocity is not desired in launching a satellite intended to orbit the earth. :)

Nah. They need to reach escape velocity so that their satellite will escape our tracking radars. :yep:

[darius359au]

With such grandeur as this, how could the launch go wrong?

http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-001.jpg

I just noticed ,why have they planted bushes around the base of the launch pad? ,or are they NK snipers in ghille suits at attention ready to shoot any nosy capitalist media that get too close?

[TLAM Strike]

Nah. They need to reach escape velocity so that their satellite will escape our tracking radars. :yep:

http://i42.tinypic.com/oiunnn.gif
Space does not work that way...

[krashkart]

http://i42.tinypic.com/oiunnn.gif
Space does not work that way...

Lighten up. It was a joke. ;)

[SgtPotato]

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/510157424.jpg

Security on Budget. :O:

[TarJak]

http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-010.jpg
Pyongyang, we have a problem...

[krashkart]

http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-010.jpg

Attention! All servants of The People's Volunteer Space Program! If the mission is successful you will be rewarded with two rice balls and a photograph of our new Dear Leader. If the mission fails you will be executed. That is all.

[Jimbuna]

http://img4.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/north-korean-launch-site-010.jpg

Eyes down and your first number for any line....

[razark]

And it's up:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-launch/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Hrm. Maybe not:
North Korean long-range rocket broke apart after launch, U.S. official said.

[Oberon]

Well, it's launched...the question is in how many pieces... :haha:

Yes, Seoul, Japan and the US confirm that it flared and broke up 90 seconds after launch. That's an improvement on their usual standards I suppose... XD

[soopaman2]

Quoting myself would prove me a douchbag. Well I am aren't I... Yeah.

So I will just point to my previous post in this thread, done before the rocket crumbled and say...

Told ya so...

I have more respect for Iran than that joke of a country, at least Iran relies less on China to prop it up for the world community.

Nelson (school bully) from the Simpsons comes to mind.

*points at Fatty Kim junior*
"HA HA":D

[soopaman2]

I just can't help myself.

I tracked down using the infinite powers of the internets some file footage of the launch.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f259/Soopaman2/nkorea.jpg

[Reece]

I'd hate to be in the shoes of the designers/engineers of the rocket!!:dead:
I wonder what story they will launch as to the failure, probably the US shot it down or something like that!!:doh:

[Rockstar]

"The North had said it would launch the rocket between April 12 and 16 to put what it claimed to be a satellite into orbit to mark the 100th birthday celebrations for Kim Il-sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un."


Ha ha what a load of crap. This is the first time China, err. I mean North Korea fired one south. That in it self might tell us what the payload was and I betya it wasnt party favors. :D

Regardless of how the launch went China, umm I mean North Korea DID pull the trigger and fire in violation of a U.N. resolution.

[Platapus]

Ha ha what a load of crap. This is the first time China, err. I mean North Korea fired one south. That in it self might tell us what the payload was and I betya it wasnt party favors.

Weather satellites, when not put in to the Geo types of orbits are usually placed in polar orbits which usually means launching to the South. I don't think Russia would care for a North launch over their land mass.

I would say that a south launch direction would support the hypothesis that it was a weather satellite.

[RickC Sniper]

Perhaps their universities should include more science and engineering degrees and drop that prestigious degree in "The Genealogy of the Supreme Leader".

[geetrue]

What if it was planned that way?

The next time they launch one and time it to blow up over South Korea or Japan and say,

"So sorry we are experiencing such difficulties please bear with us" :D

[Reece]

Don't give them ideas!!:oops: Too late!!:doh:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Skv6wqPP4v0/T4dnERdTFBI/AAAAAAACcpk/CTyKjgYBULA/w497-h373/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-12-18%2Bat%2B9.57.40%2BPM.png

[VirtualVikingX]

Could the failure be due to some "unintentional" jamming/interaction?

What kind of "tech" is NK using here - 1950s?

[Oberon]

Pretty surprising that they actually admitted that it failed though...first time in about three failed launches.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Pretty surprising that they actually admitted that it failed though...first time in about three failed launches.:o Miracles happen!

[VirtualVikingX]

Maybe the tape with the successfull launch broke, and they had no gluetape to fix it?

[Jimbuna]

Well the eyes of the world will be upon them...here's hoping it doesn't suffer a spectacular launch disaster :DL

Told you so :smug:

[mookiemookie]

Dramatic footage from the North Korean launch pad:

http://i.imgur.com/gf8D2.gif

[Dread Knot]

I'm surprised they didn't claim the rocket's real purpose was to explore the seabed. :O:

[Herr-Berbunch]

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/284/589/b54.jpg

[JU_88]

Dramatic footage from the North Korean launch pad:

http://i.imgur.com/gf8D2.gif

:rotfl2::rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/284/589/b54.jpg

LOL :DL

[STEED]

Man it bummed out! What a massive let down, WW3 has been cancelled this weekend.

[MH]

Should try this next time:
http://0.tqn.com/d/phoenix/1/7/N/a/flugtagtempe07.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hpH0g-oD7eo/hqdefault.jpg

Rocket scientist vacation.

[geetrue]

Do they sell Snickers bars in North Korean?

Someone needs a Snickers

[Platapus]

What if it was planned that way?

The next time they launch one and time it to blow up over South Korea or Japan ....

And why would you think they would do that? :doh:

[USS Drum]

FIRST PICTURE OF THE NORTH KOREAN SATELLITE!
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeO2xzkYTi9txfdtv1Y1ZQ_lkIhJHOM L8o_VRvg84EjnjTRu42MA

[SgtPotato]

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/funny-gifs-north-korean-rocket-launch.gif

[Reece]

http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/s/s/19/media19/2012/Apr/12/LiveLeak-dot-com-6e8d7b84b297-qnr.jpg.resized.jpg?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92 b06c91b4db65f5e99818bad4924e4cded38ac5&ec_rate=300

[Jimbuna]

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/funny-gifs-north-korean-rocket-launch.gif

ROFLMAO :har:

[_dgn_]

North Korea to launch satellite
... or only a fireworks ?


http://images.imagehotel.net/czwrgcm3ea.jpg (http://www.imagehotel.net/?from=czwrgcm3ea.jpg)

[USS Drum]

They are actually launching a fancy trashcan into space:
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1ijZSa3ZrKM5MGlJ3LVS39Ud04GBba gNovld3DjIS0MrcQb61

[Reece]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-120413-north-korea-statues-nj-04.photoblog600.jpg
That thing is supposed to go up there, now that's funny!!

[Oberon]

Spud, that's hilarious! :har::yeah:

[Jimbuna]

http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/images/764.gif