Caption this Photo(a N. Korean official at a press center in Pyongyang)

Yonhap News ^ | 04/13/12

[TigerLikesRooster]

A N. Korean official at a media center of a hotel in Pyongyang on Apr. 13 (probably after launch failure)

[TigerLikesRooster]

The guy has "I am so screwed" written all over his face.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[pabianice]

Silently saying ‘goodbye’ to his testicles.

[shove_it]

I couldn’t get it up.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Another shot:

[TexasCajun]

"Hummmm... What Would Jay Carney Say?"

[Batman11]

“I couldn’t get it up.”

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

[Harley]

He’s more screwed than a stray dog in Chinatown.

[unkus]

He needs to find out where Baghdad Bob is and see how he saved himself.

Yeah, this guy is screwed. He’s fat compared to what he’ll be in 3 months.

[JoeDetweiler]

Doesn’t look very well fed, does he? Its probably not a particularly good idea to have rocket scientists who are spending most of their time worrying about where their next meal is coming from.....

[aces]

Anyone got a sandwich?

or:

Damn whiteys sabotaged us again...

[GeronL]

He’s probably a dead man and 3 generations of his family could be on their way to the death camps.

“There are no missiles in the Pacific Ocean”

The NK media is probably telling their own people it was a glorious success

[Tijeras_Slim]

No tree bark for YOU!

[JRios1968]

Fairure is ronery

[ecomcon]

[Dr. Ursus]

How do you say dead man walkin’in Korean?

[FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs]

[Ditter]

They don't look very happy do they? Thinking something like (flucked again)........

[layman]

I knew it was going to be a bad day when it was pointed out to me that this tie with this shirt was a big mistake.

[McGruff]

It was da Jews!

[Snickering Hound]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’ll make the following prediction without fear of challenge:

The UN will condemn the launch and demand NK stop building rockets.

NK will tell the UN to butt out and light off another nuke test.

The US will send $250 million in food, hoping to change the attitude of the NK.

[McGruff]

Protesters from conservative, right-wing and anti-North Korean civic groups burn
an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un bound on a mock North Korean
missile during a protest against North Korea's rocket launch near the U.S. embassy
in Seoul April 13, 2012. North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch
failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the
hermit state and ...

LOL. I think they are mocking you there Kim Jong.

[COBOL2Java]

"Yes, yes, he's here. Where do you want him to be when he catches the fired mortar round?"

[X-spurt]

Ooops, missed one item.
Nobama will blame Bush and send them technology to fix problem.

[Wurlitzer]

No problem! Like the USA, N.Korea has a great propaganda machine and they will UNCOVER that it was a white Westerner who sabotaged the missile.

More than likely our MSM will even help them craft such a story because it does not help Mubumbo Odumbo to have large central planning type governments fail.

This failure does not support our MSM’s narrative that socialists/communist/Marxist are vastly superior to Capitalists and freedom loving people.

[TSgt]

The reporter in the blue jacket has a, “you are so screwed” look on his face.

[snoopy 'n linus]

Can’t beat the winning entry earlier but alternate vote toes to

“It’s BUSH’s fault.”

[ßuddaßudd]

Sum Por Guy

[andy58-in-nh]

"He's wetting his pants right now. Can he call you back, sir?"

[BigCinBigD]

Girl in the back: is a dead man f/4 or f/6.5?

[mware]

See the reporter with the pursed lips.

He looks like he is afraid to show any kind of emotion.

[Quix]

Why would I want to put words to a bloke

trapped in a NO-WIN situation

. . . words that could contribute to his execution for no good reason?

[Eagle of Liberty]

The US will send $250 million in food, hoping to change the attitude of the NK.

You forgot your conclusion:

The $250 million in food will not go to the public but will be placed in Government coffers and the public will still praise DEAR LEADER.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Hey deadmeat, It’s for you. She says it has something to do with that Michael Jordan basketball you recommended as a gift for dear leader. Said you would understand.

[jakerobins]

Dang it.....why do they always go off early?

[Autonomous User]

Traitorous rocket cause much dishonor....must regain face. Lets try an atom bomb test!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

OK, so I’m weak on the physics of ballistics and missile guidance.

So can someone answer me this...

Isn’t a rocket launch and guidance based on science on mathematics? If so, shouldn’t the launch be nothing more than what the engineers have proved and re-proved time and time again in working out all the various scenarios? How can these engineers have a launch that fails (short of the obvious variables like mechanical breakdown, etc.).

I don’t understand why the NoKos can’t do this successfully, unless their engineering is hopelessly flawed, in which case they shouldn’t be staging these pie-in-our-own-face circuses.

[RetSignman]

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say man who lose rocket lose rocket in pocket too.

[RitchieAprile]

consider that we with all our expertise and that of the German rocket scientists, we still had years of failures
in our programs. its math/science/engineering/program management, and being able to learn from failure.

they also need for there to be freedom to bring bad news
to the attention of management.

[SevenofNine]

MONK I think we need your Gary Cole photoshop here with him directing phone lines ROFL

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Just heard that the US announced the food shipment would be “curtailed.”

Likely to be reintroduced in June...

[Carry_Okie]

I don’t understand why the NoKos can’t do this successfully, unless their engineering is hopelessly flawed, in which case they shouldn’t be staging these pie-in-our-own-face circuses.

Some things are just difficult. You can't simulate everything (such as the effects of vibration, thermal shock loads, timing issues on separation, etc.). The US had a couple of dozen failures in our early rocket program. Remember Vanguard?

1. Vanguard TV3 - December 6, 1957 - Failed to orbit 1.36 kg (3 lb) satellite
2. Vanguard TV3 Backup - February 5, 1958 - Failed to orbit 1.36 kg (3 lb) satellite
3. Vanguard 1 - March 17, 1958 - Orbited 1.47 kg (3.25 lb) satellite
4. Vanguard TV5 - April 28, 1958 - Failed to orbit 9.98 kg (22 lb) satellite
5. Vanguard SLV 1 - May 27, 1958 - Failed to orbit 9.98 kg (22 lb) satellite
6. Vanguard SLV 2 - June 26, 1958 - Failed to orbit 9.98 kg (22 lb) satellite
7. Vanguard SLV 3 - September 26, 1958 - Failed to orbit 9.98 kg (22 lb) satellite
8. Vanguard 2 - February 17, 1959 - Orbited 10.8 kg (23.7 lb) satellite
9. Vanguard SLV 5 - April 13, 1959 - Failed to orbit 10.3 kg (22 lb 11 oz) satellite
10. Vanguard SLV 6 - June 22, 1959 - Failed to orbit 10.3 kg (22 lb 11 oz) satellite
11. Vanguard 3 - September 18, 1959 - Orbited 22.7 kg (50 lb) satellite

The joke was that Vanguard was like a government worker: 'You can't fire it and you can't make it work.'

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius also say man who lose big rocket lose little rocket.

[ken5050]

He is in really, REALLY, deep kimchee...

[bunkerhill7]

Vanguard got up, sat down

[TexasRepublic]

The reporter in the blue jacket is thinking, “If I laugh, they are going to kill me and BBQ my family. This is very hard, holding it in...”

[blueunicorn6]

“Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom”

[bert]

———The US will send $250 million in food, hoping to change the attitude of the NK.————

Interesting comment upon which I can shed some real light.

I spoke last week with a man with an organization called Samaritan’s Purse. They have a program involving Shoe Boxes of stuff and I think food. This is the organization of Franklin Grahm and operates from their Charlotte facility

He told me they have a shipment for North Korea ready to go but it was put on hold by the US government because of the rocket. Now that the rocket is failed, one wonders if the rescinded permit will be reinstated?