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Today is April 5, 2010, the one year anniversary of North Korea\u2019s failed attempt to launch a satellite into orbit. Depending on how you count them, this was either the DPRK\u2019s second or third attempt to launch a satellite. (I favor calling it the third satellite attempt but, as fellow-wonk contributor Josh Pollack points out, North Korea only claimed it was a missile launch.<\/a>) We have had numerous discussions of the U’nha-2 launch and, I am sure since I have more to say, we will have many more. What I am most interested, however, is the July 4th 2006 launch. I would love to know what that missile looked like. Apparently, the US government knows, presumably because they photographed it on its launch pad. I don\u2019t suppose I can convince them to publish an image of that missile. If they did, we could learn a great deal about how the DPRK<\/span> is developing their missiles. But perhaps some privately owned hi-res satellite took an image of it, much like they did with the U’nha-2. If they did, please, please, please<\/strong> publish it. (I will have more to say about the implications of knowing what the 2006 \u201cTae’podong-2\u201d looked like later.)<\/p>\n Today is April 5, 2010, the one year anniversary of North Korea\u2019s failed attempt to launch a satellite into orbit. Depending on how you count them, this was either the DPRK\u2019s second or third attempt to launch a satellite. (I favor calling it the third satellite attempt but, as fellow-wonk contributor Josh Pollack points out, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YCp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811025,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709677\/revisions\/811025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"