North Korean media has remained fairly quiet in response to world headlines that continue to be dominated this week by the news of another attempted rocket launch by Pyongyang.

It has, however, been talking about the recent failure of South Korea’s own satellite launch. In a broadcast on the Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS), North Korea’s main radio station early this morning, an announcer read a statement pointing out that previous attempts made by Seoul to launch a satellite had failed in August 2009 and 2010.

Is this all an attempt, therefore, to simply launch a satellite before the South