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KCNA’s new site gets Juche date
Just over a week since the Korean Central News Agency completed a major overhaul of its website, several elements of the new site have been changed. The changes address a couple of things that surprised me when I first reviewed the site on January 5. The first is the addition of a Juche date. The…
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Ranking Eric Schmidt’s Pyongyang trip
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is back from Pyongyang. His visit made headlines around the world, but what about inside North Korea? I took a look at the main 8pm evening news on North Korean TV to see where the visit ranked. Details of Eric Schmidt’s movements were reported on both Wednesday and Thursday. Domestic news…
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KCNA updates its web site
KCNA, North Korea’s state-run news agency, has relaunched its web site. The site, which is one of only a handful hosted in Pyongyang, was first launched in late 2010 and has been redesigned a couple of times since it first went online. The new design, which appears to have debuted on January 4, is perhaps…
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South Korea to continue analog TV near border
Just days away from completing a nationwide switch from analog to digital television, South Korea has announced plans to continue analog TV broadcasting in border areas so that North Koreans don’t lose access to the signals. Overseas radio and TV broadcasts are about the only free media available to North Koreans, although reception isn’t easy.…
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Caught on video: North Korea’s satellite
North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, launched on December 12 but apparently silent ever since, has been captured on video by a South African satellite watcher. [UPDATED: See below] Greg Roberts posted several video clips on YouTube that show reflections of light from the sides the satellite as it orbits the Earth. The clips are from December…
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Tracking North Korea’s satellite
It’s been a few days since North Korea put a satellite into space — a massive technological step for the country and something widely condemned by other countries — but we’re still not much closer to knowing anything about what’s up in space. It only took a few hours for North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD),…
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Voice of Korea on rocket launch
North Korea’s international radio broadcaster, the Voice of Korea, carried two items in English on Wednesday announcing the rocket launch. The first led the news bulletin and was just over two minutes long: [audio:https://www.nktechlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121212-vok-launch_01.mp3] The second, announced over a musical bed, was about 3 minutes long and came at the end of the hour-long broadcast:…
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US Space Command tracking three objects from DPRK launch
U.S. Space Command is tracking three objects in orbit that apparently came from today’s North Korean rocket launch. The primary object is thought to be the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite. It’s been given the satellite catalog number 39026 and the international designator 12-072A — both identifications that help keep sorted the catalogs of satellites and junk in…
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NORAD says object ‘appeared to achieve orbit’
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, says it tracked the North Korean rocket launch and that it appears to have placed an object in orbit. Here’s the statement, issued out of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, NORAD said: North American Aerospace Defense Command officials acknowledged today that U.S. missile warning systems…
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North Korean media claims launch success
North Korea’s state media has claimed success in its attempt to put a satellite in orbit. Here’s the KCNA bulletin that ran just after noon local time: The second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 successfully lifted off from the Sohae Space Center in Cholsan County, North Phyongan Province by carrier rocket Unha-3 on Wednesday. The satellite…