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Kwangmyongsong-2 (meaning Bright Star-2 or Lode Star-2) was a satellite the North Korean government claimed to have placed into orbit in April 2009. According to the North Korean government, an Unha-2 rocket carrying the satellite was launched on Sunday 5 April 2009 at 11:20 local time (02:20 UTC) from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground at Musudan-ri in northeastern North Korea.
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North Korea's missile programme

In 2006 and 2009 it test-fired a new missile called the Taepodong-2, which experts say could have a range of many thousands of miles. The missile failed to perform on both occasions.
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has reconfirmed that its satellite launch in early April was successful, the official news agency KCNA said Thursday.
The Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite was accurately put into orbit and has sent back the melodies of "Song of General Kim Il Sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong Il," said a spokesman for the Korean Committee of Space Technology.

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Military and private experts have said North Korea has failed to fire its Taepodong-II missile after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload falling into the sea.
Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary.

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A photograph snapped by a passing commercial satellite has one arms-control expert questioning whether North Korea's rocket launch on 5 April was intended for peaceful purposes, as initially claimed. But other analysts are sceptical.
WorldView-1, an orbiting imaging satellite owned by DigitalGlobe in Longmont, Colorado, snapped the photograph of North Korea's TaepoDong-2 (TD-2) rocket just moments after it lifted off from the country's Musudan-ri launch site.

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Launch of Satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, North Korea

Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the General Satellite Control and Command Centre to watch the process of launching the experimental communications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 on Sunday.
He acquainted himself with the preparations made for the satellite launch.
After being briefed on the satellite launch, he observed the whole process of the satellite launch at the centre.
At 11:20 a.m. the satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, a shining product of self-reliance, soared into space by carrier rocket Unha-2. It was smoothly and accurately put into its orbit 9 minutes and 2 seconds after being completely separated from the carrier rocket.
Expressing great satisfaction over the fact that scientists and technicians of the DPRK successfully launched the satellite with their own wisdom and technology, he highly appreciated their feats and extended thanks to them.
It is a striking demonstration of the might of our Juche-oriented science and technology that our scientists and technicians developed both the multistage carrier rocket and the satellite with their own wisdom and technology 100 percent and accurately put the satellite into orbit at one go, he noted, repeatedly praising the patriotic devotion of the scientists and technicians who are playing a vanguard role in the drive to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation.
Stressing the need to bring about a new turn in conquering outer space and making a peaceful use of it on the basis of the successful launch of the satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, he set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled to do so.
He met with the scientists and technicians who have contributed to the satellite launch by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm with ardent patriotism and warmly encouraged them before having a photograph taken with them.
He was accompanied by Secretary Jon Pyong Ho and First Vice-Department Director Ju Kyu Chang of the WPK Central Committee.

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The North Korean state media repeated its claim yesterday that the launch was a success, pitching into orbit the Kwangmyongsong 2, or Lodestar communications satellite. The name is one of the titles awarded to the North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il, who witnessed the launch from a control centre and reportedly expressed satisfaction with what sounds less like a communications beacon than a giant musical box.
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The North Korean government is touting a controversial rocket launch this weekend as a success, despite indications that it crashed into the Pacific Ocean and never made it into space.

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It was meant to broadcast a booming anthem to leader Kim Jong-il, but if it did it was heard only by sea nymphs ringing its knell. On 5 April, North Korea's third attempt at a satellite launch, like its predecessors, dropped its payload into the Pacific Ocean. Preliminary analyses point to a failure in the rocket's third and final stage, which either did not ignite or did not separate properly from the second stage.

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North Korea failed in its highly vaunted effort to fire a satellite into orbit, military and private experts said Sunday after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload fell into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary capable of hurling deadly warheads halfway around the globe.
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