North Korea Attempts to Launch Satellite But It Crashes Into Ocean
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I Spy North Korea was trying its very best to send a spy satellite up into space — but that thing just didn't want to stay in the sky. As North Korea's Korean Central News Agency reported, the failed Malligyong-1 satellite, which was launched on a Chollima-1 rocket, experienced a second-stage malfunction that saw it […]
North Korea was trying its very best to send a spy satellite up into space — but it just didn't want to stay in the sky.
The Pyongyang-run media attributed the satellite's failure to "unstable" fuel and the newness of the Chollima-1 rocket, and has vowed to fix its "serious defects" and relaunch as soon as possible.
South Korea later revealed that it had salvaged part of what is believed to be the wreckage, which could be a huge boon for the country.
As with all statecraft, this debacle has many layers, and although it's scary to imagine North Korea trying to get around the rules preventing it from testing long-range missiles, it's at least reassuring that its latest attempt crashed and burned.
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