North Korea vows to plant flag on the moon within next decade

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Isn't North Korea just hilarious?

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North Korea is aiming to send an unmanned mission to plant a flag on the moon within the next 10 years, but for now, scientists say, the country’s space agency will focus on launching additional indigenous advanced military satellites into orbit.

"Even though the US and its allies try to block our space development, our aerospace scientists will conquer space and definitely plant the flag of the DPRK on the moon,” Hyon Kwang Il, director of the scientific research department of North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration told AP.

But the next five-year plan to be implemented by the republic’s leader Kim Jong Un will focus on launching first geostationary communications satellite to add to a fleet of two, KMS-3-2 and KMS-4, already believed to be orbiting the planet.