At last, the rocket located at Musudan-ni, North Korea, has been launched this morning, at about 11 AM local time. I'm looking for my favorite newspaper The Australian tomorrow to see what the Aussie would discuss about this launching.
Anyway, there are some things that need to be noted first.
1/ People call it a missile in North Korea's testing in 2006 but call it a rocket today. Generally, the Western has known that N Korea is launching a satellite in this time and practitioners call it a rocket, whatever it is for peaceful use or not. On the contrary the objective of a missile is to land a warhead on a certain target. However, placing a satellite into orbit is a step towards ICBM club. That's what the other countries concerns about. Moreover, it is believed to be a version of the Taepodong-2 military missile and it has a range of 5500 to 8000km, covering US territories such as Guam, Hawaii and Alaska.
2/ Liquid fuel for a missile or rocket is highly toxic, so it has to be launched in the open. But now the N Korea has mastered solid fuel technology, meaning it can assemble and prepare the missiles in a silo or a cave so that no one can watch.
Hay hay ^^
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