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LUVMBDiesels · #9 03-31-2009, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

Is the technology that advanced that North Korea is now just getting into the game?

North Korea has no business developing these things in the first place. A nation with a GDP of under 30 billion dollars (Less than the amount of money generated by the Port of Elizabeth in NJ) should not be spending 100s of millions on building long range rockets. They cannot even feed their people or give them a decent standard of living.

Of course since most of the nation's money goes to the military and having a missile that can hit Hawaii or Taiwan or the Philippines gives the 'Dear Leader' something he can use to extort more money from those countries...
I absolutely think this is a test of a missile designed for nuclear warheads. North Korea has no need for a "communications satellite" the whole country is what, the size of Mississippi?

Since the DPRK has withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty you can bet that this launch vehicle and the warhead that it is designed to carry will be on the open market in a couple years.