on friday time from here just about north 100 miles north of here and broke up promptly about 100 miles to the west of seoul in the yellow sea. it was such a failure that north korea did something that usually doesn t do. it admitted it on state television and in a statement. it said the civilian satellite did not make the orbit and the scientists are looking into it. they did not, however, admit it in person to the international media corps here. i pressed very hard a spokesman on that point. he wouldn t budge. washington was talking, though, even though it did fail, they still called it a provocative, they also tried to tamp down proliferation fear that is spreading missiles and maybe nuclear weapons from here talking about the unreliability of north korean product and they also, despite the starvation in this country, said they would go ahead with the suspension of planned food aid because of this liftoff. now, the regime here did not let this tamp down their party, however. it co