{"id":1483,"date":"2012-04-15T19:34:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2012-05-08T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:00:41","slug":"wilted-missile-like-father-like-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Wilted Missile: Like Father, Like Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported this week that North Korea&#8217;s test of a long range Taepodong 2 missile into orbit, broke up and fell into the Yellow Sea west of Seoul. This launch was supposed to showcase to the world the technological advancement of North Korea&#8217;s military under new leader Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il. But just like his father&#8217;s missile test in 2006, it failed with the world watching. Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our July 7, 2006 issue which shows Kim Jong Il&#8217;s reaction to that unsuccessful missile test.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1484\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1484\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1484\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1484\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kimjongilmissile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kimjongilmissile.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kimjongilmissile-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il, sporting his latest wacky hairdo, watches the test launch of North Korea&#39;s long range Taepodong 2 missile with his military advisors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported this week that North Korea&#8217;s test of a long range Taepodong 2 missile into orbit, broke up and fell into the Yellow Sea west of Seoul. This launch was supposed to showcase to the world the technological advancement of North Korea&#8217;s military under new leader Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wilted Missile: Like Father, Like Son&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,500],"tags":[507,488,273,483,484,487,98,486,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}