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North Korea announced Saturday that it would attempt to launch a long-range rocket in mid-December, a defiant move just eight months after a failed April bid was widely condemned as a violation of a United Nations ban against developing its nuclear and missile programs.

Following North Korea's announcement, the U.S. State Department echoed a similar statement it made in April calling the attempt "highly provocative." "A North Korean 'satellite' launch would be a highly provocative act that threatens peace and security in the region," Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokesman said in a statement.
It simply is not enough for the domestic regime to oppress and repress the domestic populace... instead it must lash out in racist tirades against that which it is not... legitimate, for their place, governments. That the US Department of Incompetence is involved in spokesholing the regime's agenda of racism and bigotry comes as no surprise.