North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket
 

[North Korea fires the rocket from
its missile base in defiance of
UN sanctions barring it from
using ballistic missile technology.]


UN sanctions only effects
the General Public of North Korea

http://news.sky.com/story/1637386/no...g-range-rocket

http://media.skynews.com/media/image...-1-736x414.jpg

[In a state TV broadcast, a female North Korean announcer,
wearing a traditional dress, said the "epochal" launch,
personally ordered by leader Kim Jong-Un, had "successfully put
our Earth observation satellite ... into orbit".]

hi arista - I saw this on the news today. not a poem yet brewing lol

I think if we warn him once more he will stop

till the next time.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/...4834381612.jpg
His happy public

The west can do nothing about it though, that's what is interesting. NK prove that having a nuke is a deterrent, cause no other country is prepared to take any real action against them other than blowing a metaphorical raspberry

Can't they just use Google Earth like everyone else?

That's mainly because China hasn't severed ties (yet) and also because of the proximity to SK which would be devastated in all-out war, even a conventional one.

If China had cut them loose and SK wasn't a concern, they would be swatted long before developing an ICBM, even if they do have viable warheads.

I still believe it's mostly grandstanding, NK doesn't have a pot to piss in, most of the country lives in poverty.

Image is everything to someone like Kim Jong Un, if he's seen as a strong threat then he has power. His whole regime is built upon fear and it's balanced on a pinhead. Destroy his image and you destroy the power he has which is why he's so desperate to publicise these tests.

If these tests are more than just grandstanding then I predict KJU will suffer a fatal 'accident' very soon.

:laugh:

No they do not Trust Evil USA

Yes hours Before China New Year.


And do not think a accident will happen
as His Military Back him
so no slipping on that Soap bar
for that porky leader

Old Yung DingBan Un is just trying to save face because he only came third in Cruft's Best of Breed.

Aka they launched a VHS camera into space.