Yesterday North Korea was humiliate in front of the whole world when their rocket launch failed. The rocket was up in the air for only one minute before it broke up and fell into the Yellow Sea. Unlike normal, Western media was allowed into the country to record the whole thing. The reason for foreign journalists being allowed into the country is that North Korea wanted to prove to the world that its launch was solely for peaceful purposes. Despite this the launch was condemned by the world as North Korea is banned from rocket launches. Many countries believe that this launch was a disguise for a missile test for an intercontinental ballistic missile. Japan and South Korea both stated that if the rocket strayed into their airspace that they would shoot it down.
A UN Security Council meeting has been called to discuss the event with tighter sanctions likely to be the result. It will be interesting to see how the closest country North Korea has to an ally, China, reacts.
The embarrassing failure comes on the first official day of North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-Un. In Pyongyang today two gargantuan statues were revealed of Jong-Un's predecessors Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung (who are his father and grandfather respectively). Some people believe that in an attempt to recover some pride and respect, Jong-Un will test a nuclear weapon, which will scare North Korea's neighbours and the rest of the West. When so many people are dying of starvation it is hard to see how the North Koreans put up with the expensive military, statues and space programmes. North Korea is one state where brainwashing truly has worked.
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