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They seem to just want to get something up to space, something peaceful. But I've played "Homefront" and I'll be damned if it's really gonna happen. Thoughts?

I believe them. They seem to have a nice and reasonable track record. They have always been peaceful with people and their own country so hey, why not? Why would they try to attack America or Japan or Britain or France or Germany or Canada or South Korea or any other country except theirs?

That's my thoughts too. Why attack anyone who has the power to make you really really dead. More than likely, they want more food and other things and want people to trade them to stop the launch.

Homefront!!!! AHHHHH!!!

Calm down, they're a peaceful people.

SHUT UP!!! I BET YOURE ONE OF THEM!!!! JUST SHUT UP!!!

Seems somebody is jealous of all the attention Iran has been getting lately.

You're now being tracked. You shall be terminated.

just another "satellite" launch with no satellite and just a large rocket thats not angled for launching a satellite.

The only time North Korea will become dangerous is if A: they get a guarantee of support (which would pretty much have to come from China as the only remotely likely candidate, and even the Chinese want N. Korea to liberalize), B: They feel that US/South Korean policy has shifted from one of containment to more actively pursuing the destruction of the regime, or C: They feel their grip on the populace slipping.

North Korea is more or less technologically stagnant. One satellite will not make them more dangerous for the possible day that violence comes, and certainly marks no shift in policy.