North Korean Launch Sets Off U.S. Hunt for Parts, Clues
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The crash of a North Korean rocket has touched off a top-secret scavenger hunt by U.S. and South Korean intelligence agencies eager to recover parts for insights into the communist nation’s military program, two U.S. officials said.
Fragments fished out of the sea could provide priceless clues to whether the rocket launched yesterday was engineered and made entirely in North Korea -- or whether some of its materials, designs, or components were designed or manufactured in China, Russia, Iran or elsewhere, according to the officials, who spoke about the confidential pursuit of spare parts on condition of anonymity.