[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090818/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_rocket[/url]
[quote]SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea prepared Tuesday to launch its first rocket, just four months after rival North Korea defiantly launched its own and quickly was slapped with U.N. sanctions.
The North has warned it would closely watch the international response to South Korea's launch Wednesday.
In April, the North claimed it shot a satellite into orbit and was angered when the U.S., Japan and South Korea called it a disguised test of the regime's U.N.-banned ballistic missile technology.
South Korean officials have said their rocket launch, carrying an observation satellite, is peaceful, and they hope it will boost the country's aim to become a regional space power.
The launch of its first rocket, built in cooperation with Russia, was to take place from its space center on an island about 290 miles (465 kilometers) south of Seoul, according to the Science Ministry.
If successful, it would also mark South Korea's first launch of a rocket into space from its own territory. Since 1992, it has launched 11 satellites from overseas sites, all on foreign-made rockets.
Science Ministry official Yeom Ki-su said the two-stage rocket, called KSLV-I, will carry a domestically built satellite aimed at observing the atmosphere and ocean.
The launch was initially set for July 30 but has been delayed twice due to technical glitches, Yeom said.
Rival North Korea has already developed a variety of missiles, and the multistage rocket it launched in April is believed theoretically capable of reaching the western U.S.
The North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement last week that it will "closely watch" how the U.S. and other neighboring countries respond to the South's launch.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Tuesday that the United States has regularly consulted with South Korea on security issues.
"The South Koreans have developed their program in a very open and transparent way. And in keeping with the international agreements that they have signed on to, this is in stark contrast to the example set by North Korea, which has not abided by its international agreements," Kelly said.
Moon Tae-young, a spokesman at South Korea's Foreign Ministry, said Monday that the launch was for peaceful purposes and would be conducted transparently.
Moon said it was not appropriate to compare it with the North's April launch.
The Science Ministry said in a statement earlier this year that South Korea aims to develop a space launch vehicle with its own technology by 2018 and a lunar module by 2025.
China, Japan and India are Asia's current space powers. Japan has launched numerous satellites, India has a satellite orbiting the moon and China sent astronaut Yang Liwei into space in 2003.[/quote]
Wonder how this will turn out.
At least it didn't have a nuke on the front of it :science:
And before someone fucks up, South Korea are on our side.
shits about the hit the fan
Hmmm, Now if NK flips out the whole Korean penisula gets to be demolished by each other.
[QUOTE=smurfy;16785810]And before someone fucks up, South Korea are on our side.[/QUOTE]
Most everyone's on our side, we have the biggest stick.
Good doer Korea is so much better than Evil doer Korea it's funny.
HO HO MRILLION MRAN RARMY! MANY AK47! BEAT DWAT YOU RICH FRAGGOTS!
NK is a barking dog. By the way what is Iran up to these days?
only difference is SK isn't a backwards country hellbent on killing everyone else
[QUOTE=Fekel Die Juden;16785940]Good doer Korea is so much better than Evil doer Korea it's funny.
HO HO MRILLION MRAN RARMY! MANY AK47! BEAT DWAT YOU RICH FRAGGOTS!
NK is a barking dog. By the way what is Iran up to these days?[/QUOTE]
That was a horrible typed accent.
I am pretty sure that South-Korea and North will someday attack each other with nukes.
[QUOTE=ripsipiirakk;16789460]I am pretty sure that South-Korea and North will someday attack each other with nukes.[/QUOTE]
India and Pakistan haven't so maybe not
You where a terrible mod anyway.
It's not a nuke, It's a god damn space rocket.
[QUOTE=bigdan;16790074]You where a terrible mod anyway.[/QUOTE]
It's the new meme!
Though, when I came in here, I almost though this was NK for a second.
Edit: And I was about to say "WTF HOW OLD IS THIS?!?!" along with that.
[QUOTE=redonkulous;16785830]Hmmm, Now if NK flips out the whole Korean penisula gets to be demolished by each other.[/QUOTE]
Who gives a shit apart from Koreans.
[QUOTE=jcallan;16790566]Who gives a shit apart from Koreans.[/QUOTE]
i donno maybe japan.
:downs:
Im South Korean And i just heard about this
i dont think this is going to turn out well
[QUOTE=Resistance777;16792413]Im South Korean And i just heard about this
i dont think this is going to turn out well[/QUOTE]
See you on the other side.
[QUOTE=Resistance777;16792413]Im South Korean And i just heard about this
i dont think this is going to turn out well[/QUOTE]
Don't worry we can always watch JSA.
[QUOTE=Resistance777;16792413]Im South Korean And i just heard about this
i dont think this is going to turn out well[/QUOTE]
I doubt anything seriously bad will happen... North Korea seems to posture alot but normally avoids doing anything very crazy.
If i'm wrong, 힘내요...
Maybe both having nuclear missiles will be better. They both fear eachother, so they dont fire them.
Alot like USA and the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
Cool, more people in space! I'm down for it. I mean the South Koreans have a bunch of technology (like Japan) that they can add to a new space station and stuff.
[QUOTE=MC3craze;16794330]Cool, more people in space! I'm down for it. I mean the South Koreans have a bunch of technology (like Japan) that they can add to a new space station and stuff.[/QUOTE]
That's a point... seems to be a bit of an oriental space race going on at the moment. I did hear plans of China wanting to build their own personal station though.
[QUOTE=Athelus;16794479]That's a point... seems to be a bit of an oriental space race going on at the moment. I did hear plans of China wanting to build their own personal station though.[/QUOTE]
China wants it all. But China is too busy censoring everything else.
Well, I guess the world will watch as Korea steps on the moon in 2025 before the US in 2029.
Think it was delayed
11:36 GMT, Wednesday, 19 August
[Quote]South Korea has called off the launch of its first space rocket just minutes before the scheduled blast-off due to a suspected problem with fuel pressure.[/quote]
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8208387.stm[/url]
Also according to the article, they sent their first astronaut into space in April, and several sattelites on other rockets, but this is their first homegrown rocket delivery.
At first I was like OH SHI-
But then
[quote]South Korean officials have said their rocket launch, carrying an observation satellite, is peaceful, and they hope it will boost the country's aim to become a regional space power.[/quote]
I felt relief and disappointment
Awww... South Korea is growing up :3:
North Korea is the mean 5 year old brother who thinks he cool.
Do you think they would fire a rocket at NKorea?
[QUOTE=luke7dude;16804175]Do you think they would fire a rocket at NKorea?[/QUOTE]
No, they're not assholes like NK.
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