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There is no intelligent life here scotty, beam me up immediately!

I don't understand why North Korea doesn't build thousands of cruise missiles instead and I don't undrestand why China doesn't build millions of cruise missiles.

"The launch is going to cost the cash-strapped country $850 million, reports say."

That would have paid for 850 cruise missiles capable of evading enemy countermeasures and capable of carrying compact fission warheads.

I would advise North Korea to abandon ballistic missiles technology if they make those rockets for military purposes. If it is truly for space purposes than it has it's utility. But ballistic missiles are a very bad military investment.

Jan (unregistered) wrote in #9
Eurasian (unregistered) wrote in #16
_________ ____________________ ____________________ _ Jan, Are you really that brainwashed to believe the IDIOTIC propaganda of the west; nation that has developed a satelite technology not to be able feed its population? Than that goes for ALL the rest "developed" but just to pretend they are the best ;) Iran already sent 3 in orbit. Venizuela, etc... the universe does NOT revolve Only around USA - get use to it. And IN FACT USA has the MOST of beggers on the streets.
There is a difference in scale here. The majority of people in NK are poor, which does not apply for (e.g.) US and EU. So it is a matter of priorities for the NK government.

A lso, won't you stop attacking commenters here personally? It's really not necessary.
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re: Jan,
Who exactly I am “attacking personally” here, and particularly in my comment you quoted?
Now see in the comment (pasted here – 2 comments above yours) used my name and posted on my name ´the personal attack´ which happens very regularly here with me; insults, offences, systematic provocations and even life threats, but just in attempt to silence me. Or maybe was you using my name?
"Eurasian (unregistered) April 03, 2012, 10:31 quote  &nb sp;  -4
Please like this post so as I can go to bed tonight and be the meat over my own ego. =)" – This is NOT my comment, unlike the other two above.
You talk about “the poor” in N Korea? There is NO such a thing as ´poor or rich´ in N Korea thus classless socialist society. The very BIG gap between poor & rich IS in the capitalist world. Or perhaps you could convince us otherwise? …careful on this one, I was born in the Soviets and can give lectures about this. And you expect us to believe this fairytale that the US having strangled to death N Korea ever since the Korean War, with sanctions, embargos, etc will give “food aid” to N Korea to prosper? Well, we are not children here.

Brett Charlton wrote in #11
I must say the comments on here are to an impressively high standard, keep it up guys.
If your country is is receipt of foreign aid you probably shouldn't have a space programme.   And your common sense is even of extraordinarily highly impressive standard.  Everyone with a common sense understand this is in reality a *military* project not quite related to space programme.

everyone of you disgusts me you are all a bunch of hating ignorant prik$.... one day you will wake up from this hate and realize its to late.. history has a way of repeating itself. humans the parasite of the world...    

andrew wrote in #11
There is a difference in scale here. The majority of people in NK are poor, which does not apply for (e.g.) US and EU. So it is a matter of priorities for the NK government.

A lso, won't you stop attacking commenters here personally? It's really not necessary.

Isn't that national security and sovereignty having even a higher prority?  And, even more important, why US/Japan/SK have the rights to set someone else (NK) priorities ?   BTW, if you really listen to the Iraqis, definitely they would say their prority would have been to free from foreign invasion and bombing - not how to make sure their gov (Saddam Hussein) is not anti-American. -- ----Yes, but we live in an "international community", if one nation's priorities have a large potential to destabilize a region of other nations, then it becomes international matter.
It can be compared with the problems related to building dams on a river in one nation that limits water supply in the "next" nation. There are treaties in place that are above sovereignity in such cases.

Of course, the "invasion" on Iraq was based on dubious information on nuclear and chemical weapons, to justify such intervention.

I must say the comments on here are to an impressively high standard, keep it up guys.
If your country is is receipt of foreign aid you probably shouldn't have a space programme.

There is a difference in scale here. The majority of people in NK are poor, which does not apply for (e.g.) US and EU. So it is a matter of priorities for the NK government.

A lso, won't you stop attacking commenters here personally? It's really not necessary.
Isn't that national security and sovereignty having even a higher prority?  And, even more important, why US/Japan/SK have the rights to set someone else (NK) priorities ?   BTW, if you really listen to the Iraqis, definitely they would say their prority would have been to free from foreign invasion and bombing - not how to make sure their gov (Saddam Hussein) is not anti-American.