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David Guttenfelder / AP
The satellite that North Korean officials say will be launched with the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, is shown to the media at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea on April 8. North Korean space officials have moved a long-range rocket into position for this week's controversial satellite launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plans in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A North Korean soldier tries to keep order as journalists gather around the North Korean satellite.
"Our country has the right and also the obligation to develop satellites and launching vehicles," Jang Myong Jin, general manager of the launch facility, said during a tour, citing the U.N. space treaty. "No matter what others say, we are doing this for peaceful purposes."
-- Reported by the Associated Press
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North Korean technicians work in the control room of the Tongchang-ri space center on April 8.
Ng Han Guan / AP
A North Korean waitress serves packaged meals for lunch on a train heading to North Phyongan Province, 35 miles south of the border town of Sinuiju along North Korea's west coast, April 8. North Korean officials escorted a group of international media by train from Pyongyang to see the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea.
David Guttenfelder / AP
A North Korean soldier stands at a check point seen from a train heading to North Phyongan Province.
Bobby Yip / Reuters
A conductor displays flag signals to a passing-by train outside a station featuring a portrait of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung northwest of Pyongyang, April 8.
Pedro Ugarte / AFP - Getty Images
The North Korean Unha-3 rocket is pictured at Tangachai -ri space center on April 8.
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It wil be interesting to see if they can get that hunk of junk off the ground let alone into space. I think i have more computers in my basement that what is showing in these pictures. when you look at the pictures it is evident that this is a really backwards country trying to look big. Everything looks so desolate and run down including the people.
We live in such a double standard country.
It is ok for Israel to launch and test rockets, have nuclear weapons, occupy lands and break international law by building settlements in those lands and defy UNSC resolutions without any consequences.
Another country tries to build a nuclear power plant or launch a rocket and we throw a fit, we use food against them and bully other countries to support our position against that country.
TedP: Agreed. Our hypocrisy is amusing to anyone not belonging to the NRA and "I have a bald eagle tattooed on my back" group.
Even better, we are so quick to jump on the few countries trying to use nuclear weapons as a deterrent (the same reason the United States uses) - yet, we are the only country to have actually used said weapons in war.
Looks like a PA speaker with a tin can on top of it. First of all they'll never get it into orbit and second if they do it'll never play any tunes because sound doesn't carry in a vacuum. We're onto you!
TedP, The Derper, From reading both of your posts you obviously think it's okay for someone, whose mental health is highly questionable, to have nuclear capabilities! Kim II Sung has shown the world for decades his disregard for human lives by brainwashing and starving his own people! What makes you think he values ours? Maybe you feel it would have been okay for Hussein or Libya's tyrant to have the capability to wipe out millions of people as long as they told the world it was only for defense? North Korea has already shown the world, in the past, it's non-compliance with NATO's nuclear regulations. North Korea should do the world a favor and blow itself off the map!! As a country, North Korea has never done anything to genuinely promote peace or human rights and they offer the world nothing!!! If you feel so in favor of and strongly about allowing North Korea to further develop their nuclear capabilities, there is a show on the National Geographic channel that you should watch, it's called Doomsday Preppers!!!
TedP, The Derper.
2 gun applicants
1) who has used the gun to protect peace and defend peace
2) who has used the gun to murder for enjoyment
Who would you give the license to?