http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/19/stamps-of-previous-satellite-launches/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/19/stamps-of-previous-satellite-launches/#comment-11727 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:46:23 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2812#comment-11727 […] UPDATE 2 (2012-3-19): Martyn Williams offers DPRK stamps of previous rocket launches. […]

]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/19/stamps-of-previous-satellite-launches/#comment-10326 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:09:15 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2812#comment-10326 […] 9. Martyn Williams has published DPRK stamps of previous launches. […]

]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/19/stamps-of-previous-satellite-launches/#comment-9473 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:49:53 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2812#comment-9473 […] 9. Martyn Williams has published DPRK stamps of previous launches. […]

]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/19/stamps-of-previous-satellite-launches/#comment-9427 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:53:14 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2812#comment-9427 […] North Korea has twice attempted to launch satellites into space in the past: once in 1998 and once in 2009. The success of the launches is an issue of debate — monitors, both governmental and amateur, never managed to detect signals from the 2009 satellite — but they were immortalized on two North Korean postage stamps. The first is from 1998 and illustrates the August 31st launch of Kwangmyongsong-1. The launch came during the country’s “arduous march,” a period of extreme famine in the country that is estimated to have killed between 900,000 and 3.5 million people. At the end of the year, North Korea would call the launch the high point of the year: The most remarkable success gained in the forced march this…(NK Tech)http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/19/stamps-of-previous-satellite-launches/ […]

]]>