North Korea launched ballistic missile successfully

[visser300]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/11/wo...html?hpt=hp_t1

It looks like Kim Yong Un The fatty at last did it right

[Soothsayer]

This deserves an extra slice of cake Kimmy.

[Ummagumma]

Kim Yong Un The fatty

deserves an extra slice of cake Kimmy.

...really? Playground jibes?

So much for constructive/de-constructive debate.

hohoho lalalala [insert one-liner here, preferably a 4chan meme or demotivational poster, coz I'm cool].

[The Despondent Mind]

Was there any doubt it would work ?
With a leader as Glorious as this nothing can go wrong !

[s.rwitt]

Was there any doubt it would work ?
With a leader as Glorious as this nothing can go wrong !

Okay, that pic is clearly photoshop. The unicorn's horn has been airbrushed out. Stop posting imperialist propaganda plz.

[Vanoi]

Best Korea always succeeds.

[AqD]

Now all the world should admit NK is a developed and advanced country!

We should make a celebration for the great Kim and stop throwing them food or treating them like beggars.

[Diamat]

Third time's a charm!

[Col. Tartleton]

First off, all missiles are ballistic. Ballistic means thrown and a missile is a projectile. A stone or javelin or arrow is a ballistic missile. We really need to stop calling these things that. It's a suborbital surface to surface rocket.

What century is this?

I'm not impressed. I'm fairly certain with a few physics books, some power tools, and the right materials I could make a high explosive suborbital surface to surface rocket in my backyard.

I got an A in high school physics and my uncle and grandfather work(ed) in the military industrial complex.

Watch yourselves Korean aerospace engineers. Average everyday normal guy from the first world is coming for your funding.

Gimme the loot.

[eizo]

First off, all missiles are ballistic. Ballistic means thrown and a missile is a projectile. A stone or javelin or arrow is a ballistic missile. We really need to stop calling these things that. It's a suborbital surface to surface rocket.

What century is this?

I'm not impressed. I'm fairly certain with a few physics books, some power tools, and the right materials I could make a high explosive suborbital surface to surface rocket in my backyard.

I got an A in high school physics and my uncle and grandfather work(ed) in the military industrial complex.

Watch yourselves Korean aerospace engineers. Average everyday normal guy from the first world is coming for your funding.

Gimme the loot.

...you can also make a nuke using two bits of right materials and a really big hammer...

[PointOfViewGun]

If you think you can make a ballistic missile of that scale with high school physics knowledge then you're merely committing suicide.

[Col. Tartleton]

Too much watching of October Sky, I think, is the problem.

Yeah, I've seen that movie too many times. Damn feel good movies.

If you think you can make a ballistic missile of that scale with high school physics knowledge then you're merely committing suicide.

It's probably going to blow me up, but if I don't blow myself up trying, I'm going to spend the rest of my life thinking about the opportunity cost.

Of course even if I succeeded they're going to put me away.

I feel like Yossarian.

[Diamat]

Too much watching of October Sky, I think, is the problem.

[ShADoW]

By the grace of the unicorns.

[frozenprince]

All hail Best Korea and it's glorious Juche spirit.

[DarthShizNit]

S. Korea produces biggest youtube hit ever...Best Korea responds with glorious achivment of human culture and supremecy.

Worst Korea has just been ONE UP'D!

[Condottiere 40K]

Should see increase in export orders for AB missile systems.

[Prosaic Visitant]

The Americans are just jealous because North Koreans have a better society.

[Odenat]

All those jokes are good, but very few country have the capability to launch a rocket to the orbit. Maybe our US friends must remember that their country does not anymore have capability to send astronauts to orbit and they musk ask russians for help. Of course sending a human is different then sending a nuclear bomb to orbit but that's quite an accomplishment for North Korea.

In the meantime, the people of North Korea suffers from hunger and hardship of course.

http://www.voanews.com/content/nasa_...s/1454996.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vide...en-china-video

[Vanoi]

All those jokes are good, but very few country have the capability to launch a rocket to the orbit. Maybe our US friends must remember that their country does not anymore have capability to send astronauts to orbit and they musk ask russians for help. Of course sending a human is different then sending a nuclear bomb to orbit but that's quite an accomplishment for North Korea.

US retired its space shuttles, thats why. The thing is, many think this rocket they launched is not for satellites. Many think its just them testing out new a new long-range missile.

Ok, why do all articles I read about it use military terms (fires, ballistics missile, ...) about it when it technically was a rocket which brought a satellite into space?

Because many people do not think its a rocket bringing a satellite into space?