Barack Obama has mocked North Korea’s space technology, saying its failed launch showed the country was wasting money on rockets that “don’t work” while its people starved.
The US president told a television interviewer that the North Koreans had “been trying to launch missiles like this for over a decade now, and they don’t seem to be real good at it”.
But he called Friday’s failed launch an area of deep concern for the United States and told an interview with the Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, broadcast that the US would work with other nations to “further isolate” North Korea.
The launch violates two United Nations Security Council resolutions and the US says it will scrap a plan to give food aid to North Korea.
Source: AP
