1998 in North Korea - Kwangmy Ngs Ng, North Korean Famine, Kwangmy Ngs Ng-1, Eternal President of the Republic (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kwangmy ngs ng, North Korean Famine, Kwangmy ngs ng-1, Eternal President of the Republic, North Korean Parliamentary Election, 1998, North Korea at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Events Weapons See also Kwangmyngsng ( (), meaning Bright Star or Brilliant Star in Korean) is a class of experimental satellite developed by North Korea and named after a Chinese-language poem by Kim Il-sung. It is the first class of satellite built by this country and the program started in the 1980s. The official Korean Central News Agency announced on September 1, 1998, Juche 87, that a satellite called Kwangmyngsng-1 had been launched at 3:07 UTC the day before (31 August 1998) from a launch site in Musudan-ri, Hwadae-gun, North Hamgyong Province by a Paektusan-1 satellite launch vehicle (SLV). This launch would have made North Korea the ninth space-faring nation, after the Soviet Union, the United States, France, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, India and Israel. According to North Korea Academy of Science's Academician Kwon Tong-hwa, the SLV was developed in the 1980s when the late leader Kim Il-sung decided to launch a Korean satellite. At the beginning of the 1990s, the capacity to achieve this goal was already reached. On occasion of Kim Jong-il's 50th birthday, on February 16, 1992, his father Kim Il-sung presented him with a Chinese calligraphed poem he had written. Referring to his son's birth, an event that was reportedly marked by a double rainbow and a bright star in the sky, the future Korean SLV and satellite would be named after it: The decision to send a North Korean satellite was precipitated by the successful launch of South Korea's first satellite, Uribyol 1 aka Kitsat 1 aka Oscar 23 aka KO 23, on August 10, 1992 and it...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=103118