North Korea launches missile, fails.

[Stranger in a strange land]

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

[The Mikado]

This is a big embarrassment for the regime.  You cancelled food aid for this?

[Senator Clarence]

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

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

LOL at the epic fail. They pissed everyone off for this?

[Stranger in a strange land]

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...

[IDS Judicial Overlord John Dibble]

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.

[politicus]

We already have a Korea thread. This is not big enough to require a special thread.

[dead0man]

I disagree.