North Korea Fail
Obama: Oh No You Din’t: and the rest of the world leaders offer similar protests.. thankfully we can count on the UN
While the North Korean’s forum cheers.
The US military on Sunday disputed North Korea’s claim that it had launched a satellite into space, saying “the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean.”
“Stage one of the missile fell into the Sea of Japan,” the North American Aerospace Defense Command and US Northern Command said in their brief account of the North Korean rocket launch.
“The remaining stages along with the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean,” the commands said. “No object entered orbit and no debris fell on Japan.”
South Korea also said the satellite which North Korea claimed to have launched Sunday did not enter orbit.
“All three stages of the rocket fell into the sea. No object entered orbit,” South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-Hee said. “It was a failed attempt to put a satellite into orbit.”
For its part, North Korea said its experimental communications satellite was “rotating normally in its orbit” and transmitting “immortal revolutionary songs” in praise of the communist state’s current and former leaders.
At least we can rest easy knowing that all they wanted was to transmit music to their people…
April 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Oh no, Obama will now sick the RIAA on them for copyright violation for broadcasting music without paying royalties. It is a new form of pptp the RIAA forgot.
More likely this was smoke screen for a ballistic missile test where they were testing the warhead re-entry capabilities. It would be interesting to know if the North Koreans had surveillance ships in the “splashdown” area in the mid-Pacific.