Sunday, December 02, 2012

Test Drive?

North Korea will have another try at launching a long-range ballistic missile under cover of a satellite launch:

North Korea plans to launch a rocket carrying a satellite between December 10 and 22, a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said Saturday, according to state-run media.

The Unha-3 rocket will launch from the Sohae Space Center in North Phyongan Province and put a "working satellite" into orbit, the report by the official Korean Central News Agency said.

The planned launch is unusual because it comes during the wintertime and only months after a failed attempt in April.

I always assume that a North Korean missile development is also an Iranian missile development. There is evidence for this assumption of mine:

More alarming are recent revelations that Iran has personnel stationed within North Korea’s ballistic missile development organization. Iran and North Korea have long been partners in ballistic missile and nuclear weapons development projects.

I wonder if Iran has some of these rockets and would like to know if they work by the spring?

But it is sheer speculation. And it is easy to create a picture with unrelated dots connected to provide what you are looking for.