Obama Unimpressed With North Korea’s Missile-Launching Prowess
North Korea's missile launch Friday didn't quite go as planned, as the country's $850 million (or so) show of military technology fizzled out after a couple of minutes.
North Korea’s missile launch Friday didn’t quite go as planned, as the country’s $850 million (or so) show of military technology fizzled out after a couple of minutes. And let the record show, President Obama was officially unimpressed. Here’s more of what he had to say about it. –KA
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Obama told a television interviewer that the North Koreans have “been trying to launch missiles like this for over a decade now, and they don’t seem to be real good at it.”
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