The real Korean threat (Updated, again)

PDRK started yesterday to refueling the tanks of the Taepodong-2 missile that will be used for a satellite launch this week. From now on, all is a matter of time. Days. Maybe just hours. And guess what, maybe it was true they were going to launch a satellite.

According to CNN, who quotes military sources, the satellite images show a bulbous cover on top of the rocket that could be -oh, surprise!- a satellite. Exactly what North Korea said they were about to do: put in orbit a Kwangmyongsong-2 (don’t ask me to say that) satellite.

Militaries are still worried, however. The point is that once you master satellite launches, the step from that to producing an ICBM able to reach the US is quite simple.

There is, however, a big obstacle for the Koreans. They have (maybe) nukes, they have (maybe) ICBMs; but they don’t have a way to put one into another. The miniaturization of the first ones in order to be capable of launching them inside the second ones remains still a challenge.

But meanwhile, let the propaganda continue flowing.



Photo: GeoEye via Telegraph.co.uk

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