RIP, but also I don't really get calling it a spy satelite as they announced they were putting it up there

North Korea’s attempt to launch its first military spy satellite has ended in failure after the rocket “crashed into the sea” and Seoul recovered some of the debris, state media said.

The launch, on the first day of a 12-day window it had announced to put the satellite into orbit, took place early on Wednesday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced.

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  • blobjim [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    A satellite launch by North Korea is a breach of United Nations Security Council resolutions that ban the country from using ballistic missile technology.

    Not even "allowed" to launch satellites. White supremacists are such a joke.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the satellite launch and urged Pyongyang to return to denuclearisation talks that have been stalled since 2019.

    🤡

    Officials from South Korea, Japan and the United States spoke on the phone and “strongly condemned” the launch, Japan’s foreign ministry said.

    :che-laugh: :che-laugh: :che-laugh: Gonna cry about it? :che-laugh: :che-laugh: :che-laugh:

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      A satellite launch by North Korea is a breach of United Nations Security Council resolutions that ban the country from using ballistic missile technology.

      More and more the UN is beginning to read like a fictional organization dreamt up by the onion

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    So wait, North Korea is apparently a backward hellhole stuck with 50s technology where everyone is starving. But they also have satellites?!

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    2 years ago

    Chinese Spy Balloon

    Russian Spy Whale

    Korean Spy Satellite

    What's next?

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Cuban Spy Cigar

      Venezuelan Spy Bicycle

      Iranian Spy Pistachios

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Tfw the US government makes importing a seed illegal because the ones from Bad Country are so much better that they would put California growers out of business.

  • hahafuck [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Why lie? Probably their point in calling it a spy sat is to assert their right to do this.