North Korea, long known to obscure its ballistic missile tests behind claims of space rocket launches, may well try to fire a satellite into orbit later this month, according to top U.S. intelligence officials. “The North Koreans announced that they were going to do a space launch, and I believe that that’s what they intend,” National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this week. “I could be wrong, but that would be my estimate.”
