Some commentators were suggesting that there was no satellite, only a rocket.<p>If that were the case, the US should announce that we shot down the North Korean satellite. Which would then lure the North Koreans into admitting it was all a fake, at which point Obama would call them up on the phone and say something like "gotcha bitch".<p>I kid but seriously, is there any way to know for certain whether there's an actual functional object orbiting the earth under NK control?