{Education} Article: North Korea rocket launch
- North Korea is apparently readying her second rocket launch of 2012,
attempting to ping satellites in to orbit using ballistic missiles.
- Island neighbour Japan is a trifle nervous about it and is readying
Patriot missiles to islands close to the areas where the three rocket
stages are expected to crash land.
- There’s a fair amount of such military posturing and space activity
going on in that part of the world, which goes some way to explaining this, this and this.