After weeks of underwater scouring, South Korea’s military Thursday recovered a sizable chunk of a North Korean rocket that failed to send a spy satellite into orbit 15 days earlier.
The 12-meter-long, 2.5-meter-wide cylindrical object, believed to be the second stage of the three-stage rocket, was pulled up from the seabed. It was salvaged from a depth of 75 meters, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, some 200 kilometers from an island off the west coast. Dozens of deep-sea divers, as well as ships and aircraft... Читать дальше...