North Korea's space race: Satellite launch imminent, official says

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North Korea's space race: Satellite launch imminent, official says
By Will Ripley and Tim Schwarz, CNN

Pyongyang (CNN)It looks like the Starship Enterprise from the outside, a futuristic complex surrounded by landscaped gardens in a quiet residential area of Pyongyang. This is North Korea's newly opened satellite control center.

CNN had been given an exclusive interview with the senior officials who run it, though the front door is as close as we're permitted to get.

Just weeks before a major national holiday widely thought to be a target date for the reclusive nation's first rocket and satellite blast-off in nearly three years, two senior directors of the National Aeronautical Development Association (NADA) tell us a launch is "imminent" and final preparations are underway to send rockets and "multiple satellites" into space.

Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/asia/north-korea-space-center-ripley-schwarz/index.html


-- CNN 2015-09-24

[peterb17]

You can just see the forthcoming headlines- falling defective North Korean satellite due to land on Pattaya next week.

TAT issued a statement- this will increase tourist numbers - as most of the beer bars will have been obliterated- Pattaya will now attract quality family tourists.

[arfurcrown]

Hopefully the dear leader itself will be in the driving seat and on a one way ticket in this upcoming stellar expedition..