U.S. and South Korea Try to Recover Debris from North Korea’s Failed Rocket Launch
The prior rocket launch the U.S. and the ROK were able to recover much of the rocket. According to the article the North Koreans this time may have deliberately destroyed the rocket once it began to fail in order to prevent its recovery:
The United States is assisting the South Korean military in retrieving wreckage from North Korea’s failed reconnaissance satellite launch, a senior defense official told lawmakers Friday.
Seoul and Washington are working to salvage the space launch vehicle from the Yellow Sea and are analyzing the launch together, Heo Taekeun, chief of South Korea’s National Defense Policy Department, said at a televised hearing of the parliamentary National Defense Committee.
Neither Heo nor National Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup disclosed during the hearing how U.S. forces are contributing to the search. U.S. Forces Korea did not immediately respond to requests for comment by phone and email Monday.
The search for debris continued Monday, National Defense Ministry spokesman Jeon Ha Kyou told reporters that day.
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Too soon, America and South Korea, too soon.
Perhaps the flotsam and jetsem laws apply here so this is all on the up-and-up, but countries generally frown on others recovering their ships and aircraft.
Protip to North Korea: Find an officer who has fallen out of favor, put him in the nose cone right before launch, and make the wreckage an internationally protected maritime war grave.
If American imperialist gangster running dogs or their South Korean puppet lackeys try to disturb the final resting place of North Korea’s latest hero of the Revolution, North Korea can retaliate by doing their own underwater salvage operation at the site of the USS Arizona.
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