This picture received from North Korea's
official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 12, 2012 shows
the rocket Unha-3, carrying the satellite Kwangmyongsong-3, being
monitored on a large screen at a satellite control center in Cholsan
county, North Pyongan province in North Korea. North Korea confirmed it
had launched a long-range rocket and succeeded in its mission of placing
a satellite into orbit. They don’t call it rocket science for nothing.
North Korea’s first successful launch of a three-stage, long-range rocket has outraged world leaders who consider it similar to a missile capable of attacking the United States, Europe and other far-away targets. But experts say Pyongyang is years away from even having a shot at developing reliable missiles that could bombard the American mainland.
A missile program is built on decades of systematic, intricate testing, something extremely difficult for economically struggling Pyongyang, which faces guaranteed sanctions and world disapprobation each time it stages an expensive launch.
“One success indicates progress, but not victory, and there is a huge gap between being able to make a system work once and having a system that is reliable enough to be militarily useful,” said Brian Weeden, a former U.S. Air Force Space Command officer and a technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation, a think tank on space policy.\
South Korean conservative activists set
fire to a mock North Korean missile and an effigy (C, unseen) of North
Korean leader Kim Jong-Un during a protest denouncing North Korea's
rocket launch the day before, in Seoul on December 13, 2012. North
Korea's rocket launch is a timely boost for its young leader, securing
his year-old grip on power and laying to rest the humiliation of a
much-hyped but failed launch eight months ago, analysts say.http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/13/north-korea-still-years-away-from-missiles-that-pose-threat-to-united-states-experts/
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