North Korea Names Its 1-Year-Old Space Agency “NADA”

On the first anniversary of the founding of its space agency, North Korea has unveiled the slick logo for the National Aerospace Development Administration, which shortens very nicely to NADA. Absolutely nada to worry about here.

The blue rings, it adds, represent satellites, and the constellation of stars shows the desire to “glorify Kim Il-sung’s and Kim Jong-il’s Korea as a space power”.

Of course the new logo looks pretty much identical to the NASA logo. I’m trying to find the original press release from North Korea’s incredibly terrifying online news desk and am instead finding stuff like this article, “Seriously Burnt Woman Completely Cured”:

More than people from all walks of life in the city including officials and employees of the hospital, people’s security workers, youth and students donated their blood and flesh for skin-grafting operations… She could recover her health thanks to all sincerities of the medical workers of the hospital and people of the present era.

Leaving for her worksite, Ryu Jong Ae said that during the 100-odd days of her hospitalization she has experienced the true picture of our society.

NADA is “purely peaceful,” says North Korea, and why would we doubt them? Space news via the Guardian, and this link to a North Korean refugee organization via adorable-eggplant, and two more space things: a six-mile-thick sea of water frozen underneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus (pronounced “enchiladas,” I think), and a robotic space surgeon “being trained on Earth to find a pulse in a dummy’s neck using ultrasound, then to stick a needle into a vein.” We gotta keep an eye on that last guy, too.