The_General_Li t1_j28xzj1 wrote
Reply to comment by Shelter_Enough in South korean military has successfully completed a solid fuel space rocket test. by r2vcap
Except the North actually lofted a satellite into orbit over a decade ago and the recent attempt to do the same by the South suffered a crippling malfunction iirc.
Somebody got triggered lol
gburgwardt t1_j290wsr wrote
Tankie begone
TheAlexiad_7 t1_j29swt1 wrote
How can someone be a pro-north korea tankie. I'm a tankie but can't ever accept that neo feudalist hell as anything commie. I'm not exactly a tankie i guess, i'm anarcho commie, but anyway
Mortentia t1_j2aqj3i wrote
Tankie and Anarcho Commie aren’t even remotely close lol. Tankie is significantly more akin to North Korea than it is to anarchism. Tankie being a Stalinist totalitarian style of intensely state-controlled communism, which is functionally what North Korea is.
reddebian t1_j29y491 wrote
I never heard of the term "anarcho commie". I'm genuinely curious now and I hope you don't mind me asking but what's your position on all the Chinese/ Russian stuff?
Preisschild t1_j2bg7ik wrote
The south successfully launched their first satellite in 1992, the north in 2012, 2 decades later.
What are you talking about?
The_General_Li t1_j2bmlld wrote
Not with their own rocket
Preisschild t1_j2borkq wrote
So? They used the benefit of having western allies.
And north koreas Unha rockets are not very indigenous either, since they are based on soviet Scud missiles.
The_General_Li t1_j2bplkn wrote
So then they didn't do it, and the North even if modifying pre-existing designs still had to successfully pull that off which they did.
jeremy9931 t1_j2b9bmx wrote
It’s not really a fair comparison since South Korea was restricted on what high-range weaponry they could develop for years and only got the range ban lifted last year by the US. I suspect they’ll be doing lots of catch-up tests over the next few years.
tiempo90 t1_j2cpwri wrote
This is "thanks" to Trump.
Trump wanted the Asian allies to be more independent (because "they aren't paying enough!" as if the US is a mercenary force and not in Asia for their own benefit), so (finally) cut the restrictions on rocket / missile distance, meaning South Korea could focus on rocket / missile development.
And since then, they've become the world's 7th (?) country to independently send a 1 tonne payload to space... something like that. Only about 2 years ago.
jeremy9931 t1_j2dijc5 wrote
Sort of, Trump agreed to relax it to 800 km in 2017, Biden eliminated them completely in March of 2021. It was inevitable that they were going to get scrapped by the next president, no matter who it was.
They’re making exceptional progress for sure.
The_General_Li t1_j2bmof3 wrote
That's not actually a real restriction, not for countries who are independent.
jeremy9931 t1_j2bwv04 wrote
It was for South Korea, a requirement forced on them in order to be allowed access to US missile technology in the ‘70s. It certainly should have been lifted years ago though.
The_General_Li t1_j2bxaxm wrote
Nothing was forced on them.
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