N. Korea launches satellite/ U.S millitary launches secret space shuttle

[newarkhiphop]

TOKYO — North Korea successfully launched a satellite into orbit on Wednesday, showing off an improving weapons program that Washington and its allies have struggled to curb despite heavy international sanctions.

Though the Unha-3 rocket did not carry a warhead, it relied on technology similar to that of a long-range missile, leading Washington, Seoul and Tokyo to describe the launch as the de facto test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions.


Officials in Seoul, Tokyo and Washington all promised a stern response. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the United States would work with other nations, as well as the United Nations, to pursue “appropriate action.”

N. Korea launches satellite, in defiance of sanctions and pressure from U.S., allies - The Washington Post

3:52PM EST December 9. 2012 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The military's mysterious mini-shuttle is set to launch this week on a classified mission that has captured the imaginations of everyone from amateur satellite trackers to anti-nuclear protestors and potential military adversaries Russia and China.

Built by Boeing's secretive Phantom Works in Huntington Beach, Calif., the Air Force X-37B spacecraft is rumored to be everything from a space bomber to a satellite-killer or a test-bed for advanced spy satellite sensors.

The Air Force is revealing little.

Air Force's X-37B mini-shuttle shrouded in secrecy


got to the love the hypocrisy