North Korea Satellite Is Tumbling Out of Control

North Korea launched a missile that put an unknown object into Earth's orbit on Wednesday, triggering condemnation from the United States, the United Nations and others.

Those objections are against North Korea's use of a long-range rocket to launch the object, as North Korea is banned from testing missiles or nuclear weapons by United Nations sanctions. Nobody seems worried about the orbiting who-knows-what, and for good reason: it's uselessly tossing and turning around the planet, not doing much of anything at all.

The object is indeed orbiting Earth, but it's "tumbling out of control," according to U.S. officials' statement to NBC News.

Those same officials, however, admitted th…
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