[Southack]

"Their paranoia would not have dared taken a chance that we would have recovered an intact launch vehicle: once the test was deemed a failure, their range-safety crew (or equivalent) would have destroyed the missile."

Quite possibly the least-informed, least-intelligent post on Free Republic so far this year.

Congratulations.

In Alan Carp's world, the U.S. is out to recover crashed North Korean "launch vehicles" from wherever in the sea that they land (as if we've got infinite ships in lines for miles waiting for a misfire, and some sort of nanotechnology that permits reconstruction of electronics and/or explosives after it falls from heights far greater than the top of the former World Trade Towers)...and as if we wouldn't think (but Alan Carp would) that NK would have a range destruct button.

Rolls eyes...

[alancarp]

You missed the point entirely. I stand by my comment. In my world, it's all about the N. Korean perception -- which has little or nothing to do with reality.