Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a C Island of the World Hotel Mars episode N. I'm John Bachelor joined by my

colleague and co-host and co-pilot David Livingston, Dr. Space himself for the space show and we're looking at and that North Korea most recently successful.

First, North Korea spy satellite is alive and being controlled from the ground.

This is a report from the Guardian.

However, we have a better source than the Guardian. However, we have a better source than the Guardian.

Bruce Bechtel, the author most recently of North Korea

and military proliferation in the Middle East

in Africa, where I note a lot of North Korean weapons are now flowing

into those regions is also someone who can help us understand this space

program that looks to be an extension of the ballistic missile program that looks to be an extension

of the aggression that North Korea visits upon the whole region.

Professor Bechtel, Bruce, a very good evening to you. The launch of the spy satellite.

I tell a story. Once upon a time Kim Jong-on, the dictator of North Korea, traveled to Vladivostokak and then on to Vastachny.

He can do that because Russia and North Korea share a border.

It's a narrow border, but the trains work.

And at Vastachny, the space port, maintained by Las Cosmos in Siberia, they exchanged smiles and I believe there were gifts exchanged as well.

Kim Jong-un got a limousine.

However, the question is, did he get one more thing?

Because suddenly, after some years of talking about it,

there was a successful launch of a satellite.

Did Brass Cosmos step in and guide the North Koreans to your knowledge?

Good evening to you, Bruce.

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