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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston
A rocket that while it didn't explode in the first 40 seconds, still failed to reach orbit and crashed with payload in the Pacific - it failed.
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beyond making the assumption that there actually was a payload to be delivered, this was a mission to obtain ballastic data and - it
succeeded.
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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston
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although Pine Gap would be a strategic target for China or Russia, the DPRK has limited munitions, thereby, they have a greater interest in striking something with more collateral damage.
besides,
everybody knows that ECHELON has too many redundant sub-nodes to be affected by something so trivial as an ICBM.