http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/04/18/after-north-koreas-rocket-launch-picking-up-the-pieces/ Weekly Insight and Features from Asia Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/04/18/after-north-koreas-rocket-launch-picking-up-the-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-3620 Lewis Franklin Fri, 04 May 2012 04:24:20 +0000 http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/?p=13786#comment-3620 Peter. Nice shirt, from Sri Lanka? And an interesting article arguing engagement when most are driven the other way. But being a tech guy, I don't have much to add on engagement policy. Here at Stanford we are slowly picking up the pieces of the Unha3 failure (The first stage was failing and slowly heading off course to the East, and the command- or self-destruct terminated it 10 seconds before normal thrust termination.), and the Apr. 15 Parade with the peculiar KN08 missiles. I was on the list to go to Sohae and Pyongyang, but State disapproved us. So we watched it daily by commercial satellite, and and passed look directions by cell phone to Jim Oberg in the DPRK with MSNBC. But not the same thing as being there. And by the way, thanks to your help in 2009 to help us get the AFP video from the Unha2 launch, we had an accurate trajectory of the Unha3, which we used to prepare many observers to see the flight, but it failed too soon. But now we are using it to analyze the failure, so thanks for your help, it paid off. See my 38North article on 11 Apr. Lew Peter. Nice shirt, from Sri Lanka? And an interesting article arguing engagement when most are driven the other way. But being a tech guy, I don’t have much to add on engagement policy. Here at Stanford we are slowly picking up the pieces of the Unha3 failure (The first stage was failing and slowly heading off course to the
East, and the command- or self-destruct terminated it 10 seconds before normal thrust termination.), and the Apr. 15 Parade with the peculiar KN08 missiles. I was on the list to go to Sohae and Pyongyang, but State disapproved us. So we watched it daily by commercial satellite, and and passed look directions by cell phone to Jim Oberg in the DPRK with MSNBC. But not the same thing as being there. And by the way, thanks to your help in 2009 to help us get the AFP video from the Unha2 launch, we had an accurate trajectory of the Unha3, which we used to prepare many observers to see the flight, but it failed too soon. But now we are using it to analyze the failure, so thanks for your help, it paid off. See my 38North article on 11 Apr. Lew

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