naughtyrev ,So now they'll just test another nuke to compensate for this failure. Probably also say we (or someone else) shot it down because we were afraid of them.

Who is to say that we didn't? Could have happened either way.

BrokenToilet,[Boeing Laser image]
*Whistles nonchalantly*

Does any know if we do have the technology to take out an ICBM on the upshot if given time to prepare?

In other news, today is an extremely sad day for the Best Korea Rocket Science Department: all of our rocket scientists were in a bus returning from the launch site when they mysteriously drove off a cliff. There were no survivors.

Hahahahahaha!!!!
It failed!!

I still wish it had been Jong Nam that had assumed power after Jong Il died.

We wouldn't be having to deal with this kind of Tae Kwon Do-style shows of impotent power.

You know, we could just start lighting up the Best Koreans from a distance. We are technically still at war.

b2theory: Great! They can't feed there people anything better than boiled bark and grass, but they've got money to blow failing to put things into orbit?

Mmm...roasted rocket with boot sauce...nom...dibs on the engine cowling!

pheelix: RIP Long Duk Dong.
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I hate you.

I hope someone attempts (and fails) to launch a meteorological satellite for my 100th birthday.

fusillade762: I thought North Korea just used Photoshop for these occasions?

That's Iran.

North Korea uses water colors and pastel crayons.

Apparently someone didn't read Wernher von Braun's notes closely enough. Oops.

\for Dong problems.....

Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: Apparently someone didn't read Wernher von Braun's notes closely enough. Oops.

That's Brawn with a "W".

Bad ruck, better ruck next time

Some amateurs have reported seeing a bright green dot on the side of the missile.

HellRaisingHoosier: I'm sure the United States had a ton of failures as well when we were building our space program.

Hmmmmm... Trolling?

+1, subs!

The only guy not dead at the Best Korea rocket building facility is the guy who is hanging up the "Help Wanted-All Positions" sign. Whoops, he's dead now too.

This is a glorious occasion! In remembrance of the leadership of Eternal President Kim Il-Sung and with the hands-on guidance of Young General Kim Jong-Un, the Unha-3 hovered in the sky long enough for the people of North Korea to observe the juche-ideal advancement of North Korean rocketeering. This is a beautiful gift for the people of North Korea, who will be inspired by this technological and military success to dutifully and spontaneously build their own rockets. Comrades, launch a million virtuous North Korean rockets and let them rain down on the imperialist and decadent Japanese and American capitalists, who will be forced to pay tribute after such a terrifying display of North Korean might!

#LAUNCHFAIL

LOL Launch pad!!!!111111111!!!

What kind of shirt does he wear?

North Korea is the worst country in the world. Its people are starving. But food aid goes to its military. It has ¼ million people in concentration camps and prison camps. If anyone speaks out against the government, the entire family to three generations gets arrested and sent to the gulags. Worst country ever.

Huh... You mean bailing wire and recycled 8086 processors don't make for great rockets? Weird.

Kim Do Fail

The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men: Bad ruck, better ruck next time

ROR

nice headline, submitter.

+6

ka1axy: In other news, today is an extremely sad day for the Best Korea Rocket Science Department: all of our rocket scientists were in a bus returning from the launch site when they mysteriously drove off a cliff. There were no survivors.

Was kind of thinking along those lines too.

And on the plus side, all the engineers and technicians who worked on this turd will be sent to work camps or executed for not loving the great leader enough, so their "rocket" "program" will be set back even farther.

Was anyone else really disappointed to watch the CNN video and have it not show the rocketing breaking up?

Michael Bay Jong 'SPLOSIONS!!!!

Kevin72: North Korea is the worst country in the world. Its people are starving. But food aid goes to its military. It has ¼ million people in concentration camps and prison camps. If anyone speaks out against the government, the entire family to three generations gets arrested and sent to the gulags. Worst country ever.

America's not that much better. It imprisons people at a rate far above any modern country. It restricts free speech to limited "zones" and speech can be curtailed by the government for any reason. The police are thugs. The military is used to spread American imperialism across the world. And America attacks countries against the will of the international community and based on the most specious of evidence.

What a failed Glorious Success launch might look like in Best Korea:

/Can't wait to see what the response from Japan is going to be

Enemabag Jones: naughtyrev ,So now they'll just test another nuke to compensate for this failure. Probably also say we (or someone else) shot it down because we were afraid of them.

Who is to say that we didn't? Could have happened either way.

BrokenToilet,[Boeing Laser image]
*Whistles nonchalantly*

Does any know if we do have the technology to take out an ICBM on the upshot if given time to prepare?

WIkipedia:

The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed, (formerly Airborne Laser) weapons system is a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) mounted inside a modified Boeing 747-400F. It is primarily designed as a missile defense system to destroy tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs), while in boost phase. The aircraft was designated YAL-1A in 2004 by the U.S. Department of Defense.[1]

The YAL-1 with a low-power laser was test-fired in flight, at an airborne target in 2007.[2] A high-energy laser was used to intercept a test target in January 2010,[3] and the following month, successfully destroyed two test missiles.[4] Funding for the program was cut in 2010 and the program was canceled in December 2011. It made its final flight on February 14, 2012 to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona to be prepared and kept in storage at the "Boneyard" by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group.


Absolutely, it's out in the boneyard. Definitely. The 747 that left? That one carries the space shuttle. Yep