WRite summary here Times Online
According to the US military, the rocket flew safely over Japan and ditched its final stage – and, apparently, its satellite payload – into the Pacific Ocean after a journey of 3,200 km (1,990 miles). However unsuccessful the satellite launch, this is further than any North Korean missile has flow before.
But, according to reports in a South Korean newspaper yesterday, the North will rely on reports from its enemies, because it lacks radar powerful enough to track the flight of its own missile all the way to the end. The Chosun Ilbo newspaper also claimed that a North Korean ship dispatched to monitor the flight had to turn back because of mechanical problems and that an air force plane crashed because of poor maintenance.
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No wonder Kim Jong Il was reported to have sobbed as the launch proceeded. He's not only rone-ry, he's a ro-ser.
And I sincerely hope all of this report is true; the lack of radar, the ship with mechanical issues and the crashed air force plane - heck, even the sobbing Kimmy.
(It still would have been better for us to have blown the sucker to smithereens and then act like we didn't know anything about it.)
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