Geraldo Rivera just announced minutes ago that the missle has been launched.

HEADS UP, EVERYBODY!!! Watch out for falling debris.

So, the world says the missle plunged into the ocean and NK says it is orbiting the earth broadcasting glorious songs of the Kims. I wonder who to believe?

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
12:53 AM PDT, April 6, 2009
Reporting from Seoul — Who cares if the whole world is calling North Korea's weekend space launch a dud – that the regime's vaunted communications satellite probably now sits somewhere on the Pacific Ocean floor?

Self-proclaimed Dear Leader Kim Jong Il still insists that his crack staff of rocket scientists boldly launched a craft into orbit Sunday. And no one is going to tell him any differently.

A release from North Korea's state-run press today said Kim watched the launch at the nation's Satellite Control and Command Center and has deemed the effort "successful."

"It is a striking demonstration of the might of our Juche-oriented science and technology that our scientists and technicians developed both the multistage carrier rocket and the satellite with their own wisdom and technology [and] 100 percent and accurately put the satellite into orbit at one go," the Korea Central News Agency quoted Kim as saying.

No, this was a day of celebration. Forget past long-range missile test failures or a bungled 1998 attempt to put a satellite into space that would have beamed patriotic songs back to the homeland.

Instead, Kim said his Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite brought North Korea closer to conquering outer space. He praised "the patriotic devotion of the scientists and technicians who are playing a vanguard role in the drive to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation," according to the North's state-run media.

But a photo the agency released of Kim reportedly meeting and posing with his "scientists and technicians" shows a breakdown in the story line. Instead of celebratory, the mood of Kim and his underlings looks downright somber, mannequin-stiff.

Judging by photos, this was no party. It was a funeral.

All that hype over a missile that crashes into the sea. Instead of showing how powerful their regeme is, they just proved how impotent they really are.

Impotent? Not really. They launch their missile a day or two after BHO states he wants a nuclear-free world.

So who's really impotent right now???

They proved that they have excellent submarine seeking missiles.

It won't be anything to worry about until one of those out-of-control "dud-tubes" lands on Tokyo, or some other nearby populated area.

JIMBIALEK wrote:

Mayor_of_Pyongyang wrote: Impotent? Not really. They launch their missile a day or two after BHO states he wants a nuclear-free world. So who's really impotent right now??? Ffftttt ....This launch was planned long before BHO made his speech. Don't forget It was during G-Dubs reign that NK exploded a nuk-u-ler bomb and designed and built this missile. Besides, this thing isn't any threat - anyone could fill a big metal tube with rocket fuel and light a match to it. Two missile duds in the past decade is nothing for us to get into a tizzy about ....it'll be 10 years before they're ready to shoot off their next one.