THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2009
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**South Koreans cheer while watching the launch of South Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1.** the country's first space rocket, at a beach in Göheung, south of Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday. The satellite lost communication after detaching from the rocket, but the flamed mission may still create an angle in North Korea.
Satellite launch in South Korea fails
BY KWANG-TAE KIM
Associated Press
South Korea's first rocket launch Tuesday failed to push a satellite into its orbit but the flawed mission may still anger rival North Korea, coming just months after the communist nation's own launch drew international condemnation.
The failure dealt ablow to Seoul's quest to become a regional space power. It comes against the complex backdrop of relations on the Korean peninsula — and recent signs that months of heightened tension over the North's nuclear program may be easing.
Also Tuesday, a South Korean newspaper reported that North Korea has invited top envoys of President Barack Obama for the first nuclear negotiations between the two countries under his presidency, but Washington quickly said it has no plans to send the envoys to Pyongyang.
The North gave no immediate reaction to the rocket launch but has said it will watch to see if the U.S. and regional powers refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council — which in June approved sanctions on the North over its recent nuclear and missile tests.
The two-stage Naro rocket, whose first stage was designed by Russia, was South Korea's first launch of a rocket from its own territory. It lifted off Tuesday from South Korea's space center on Oenaro Island, about 290 miles south of Seoul.
The rocket was carrying a domestically built satellite aimed at observing the atmosphere and oceans. A South Korean official said they could not trace the satellite in orbit after it separated from the rocket.
"We could not locate our satellite. It seems that communications with the satellite scheduled on Wednesday are unlikely to happen." Science Ministry official
Yum K1-soo told The Associated Press late Tuesday.
He said more details could be available on Wednesday as South Korean and Russian scientists were analyzing data to try to determine the cause of the failure.
Russia's Interfax-AVN news agency, citing an unidentified Russian space industry source, said the satellite never reached orbit and problems occurred in the South Korean-built second stage of the rocket.
In joint statements, Roscosmos and the state-controlled Khrunichev company, which made the rocket's first stage, said that the first stage operated as planned.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called the launch a
"half success."
"We must further strive to realize the dream of becoming a space power," Lee said, according to his office. Among Asian countries, China has conducted a manned space flight, and Japan and India have also sent rockets carrying satellites into space.
The liftoff came after a warning from North Korea that it would be "watching closely" for the international response to Seoul's launch
"We must further strive to realize the dream of becoming a space power."
LEE MYUNG-BAK President
after its own launch in April — suspected as a disguised test of long-range missile technology — drew a rebuck from the United Nations.
South Korean officials said it is inappropriate to compare their launch with the North's because Seoul's
is for peaceful purposes and was carried out with transparency.
Earlier this month, it freed two American journalists following a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton.
become markedly more conciliatory, both toward the United States and to South Korea.
It has also freed a South Korean detainee, agreed to lift restrictions on border crossings with the South and resume suspended inter-Korean projects in industry and tourism.
In recent weeks, the North has
On Wednesday, Red Cross officials of both Koreas are set to hold three days of talks on resuming reunions of families separated during the Korean War over five decades ago.
In its latest diplomatic sweetener toward Washington, Pyongyang has reportedly invited U.S. envoys for talks on its nuclear program.
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Oklahoma pastor slain inside church
Daniels made the 60-mile trek from Oklahoma City every week to preach, even though the church had no regular congregation.
ANADARKO, Okla. — The crime scene inside a small Pentecostal church where a pastor was slain was the most brutal he has seen in nearly 20 years as a prosecutor, the local district attorney said Tuesday.
Authorities do not have any suspects, she said, and were offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
"Right now we have more questions than answers," Brown said. "The few answers we do have, we want to hold on to. That might help us in the long run."
Burns has called for a meeting of local pastors on Wednesday.
"I've prosecuted over 50 murders," District Attorney Bret Burns said, "This is the most horrific crime scene I've ever witnessed."
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Carol Daniels, a pastor, was discovered Sunday in her church in what the local district attorney described as the "most horrific crime scene I've ever witnessed."
Police have released scant information about the killing of 61-year-old Carol Daniels, whose body was found Sunday inside the Christ Holy Sanctified Church.
Pastor Steve Palczynsky of the Cedar Hill Church of God in Anadarko said lack of official word is disconcerting and that he's taken extra steps to make sure his church is secure.
She said that trauma to the body indicated foul play, but did not provide details about the nature of the trauma or what caused it.
Her mother, Charlesetta Dunlap, said Daniel spent most
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"The first thing I thought about, being human, was that maybe it was a serial killer and maybe he has something out for preachers, but the Lord takes care of us," he said.
of her time helping others and went to Anadarko consistently "with the expectation of someone wanting to seek the Lord"
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