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North Korea suggests satellite launch
NHK ^ | 2017/12/18

Posted on 12/18/2017 7:38:57 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

North Korea suggests satellite launch

North Korea's state-run media has argued that every country has the right to develop its space program. Sources say it could be an indication that the country is preparing for a long-range ballistic missile launch.

The newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party, Rodong Sinmun, issued a commentary on Monday saying that violating the right to peaceful development and use of space runs counter to international law.

Back in February, the media reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had set launching a stationary satellite as an immediate goal of the country's space development.

North Korea fired what it called a satellite in February 2016. It is believed to have been a long-range ballistic missile.

This month, the Russian government-backed newspaper, Russiyskaya Gazeta, quoted a military expert who visited Pyongyang last month as saying that North Korea plans to launch 2 satellites.

The North reportedly said one is an earth observation satellite weighing over 100 kilograms and the other is a geostationary satellite weighing more than one ton.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nknukes; nkorea; rocket; satellite; trumpasia

1 posted on 12/18/2017 7:38:57 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; Grampa Dave; ...
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2 posted on 12/18/2017 7:39:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

And the mass of an EMP-inducing nuke is about...


3 posted on 12/18/2017 7:45:20 AM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Knock it down.


4 posted on 12/18/2017 7:46:45 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
North Korea cannot be allowed to put a satellite potentially containing a nuclear weapon into orbit
5 posted on 12/18/2017 7:47:36 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Looks like all the reports about them testing a missile yesterday was just media hype.


6 posted on 12/18/2017 7:52:06 AM PST by be-baw
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To: be-baw
Well, this could be viewed as a long-range missile with a different package.:-)

N. Korea would probably want to do a SLBM test down the road.

7 posted on 12/18/2017 7:55:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

let’s roll ping


8 posted on 12/18/2017 8:14:12 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Anything they launch that passes over US airspace should be quietly eliminated, no threats, no notice, with plausible deniability. “Sorry, NK, your orbital nuke appears to have self-destructed.”


9 posted on 12/18/2017 8:19:16 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They already have a couple satellites up and orbiting the earth. “Bright Stars” are they names. The NORKS put one directly over Levi Stadium 1 hour after Super Bowl 50. You can search on Live Track North Korean Satellite and look for KMS 3-2 hits


10 posted on 12/18/2017 8:31:27 AM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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Tracking NK:

https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=41332

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026


11 posted on 12/18/2017 9:29:27 AM PST by LucyT
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good links #11


12 posted on 12/18/2017 10:21:34 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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