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« on: April 12, 2012, 09:31:43 PM »

North Korea's much-anticipated rocket/missile test goes forward, but quickly ends in embarrassing failure. What are the implications?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/world/asia/north-korea-launches-rocket-defying-world-warnings.html?hp
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2012, 09:43:26 PM »

This is a big embarrassment for the regime.  You cancelled food aid for this?
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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2012, 10:22:49 PM »

Poor scientists over there better hightail it across the 38th ASAP
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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2012, 10:35:18 PM »

LOL at the epic fail. They pissed everyone off for this?
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« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2012, 10:40:13 PM »

And on top of everything else, it comes three days before the 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth! Heads are going to roll over this one...
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« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2012, 10:40:22 PM »

Poor scientists over there better hightail it across the 38th ASAP

Yeah, the implications are that some scientists are probably going to be sent to labor camps. Tongue
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« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2012, 05:58:07 AM »

We already have a Korea thread. This is not big enough to require a special thread.
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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2012, 06:11:59 AM »

I disagree.
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