Will North Korea launch a missile test by August 31?
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YES

This market will resolve to "Yes" if North Korea (DPRK) launches a missile test between August 8, 7 30 PM ET and August 31, 2023, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

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predicted NO

I think it’s unfortunate that there was even a clarification question asked on whether the satellite launch counted as a missile test, and no response before the YES resolution.

I also bought NO on the impression that it didn’t count. Like Dennis posted, even the Wikipedia page doesn’t list it.

How is this a missile test, unless all rockets count as missile? And if that’s the case, can we please update the title and description for future markets?

predicted YES

@DanMan314 Im sorry. Manifold is giving be a ton of notifications. I try to prioritize comments, sometimes they slip. I'm not going to be perfect. I have consistently resolved copies according to the polymarket resolution. I think it would be horrible precedent to overturn that.

predicted NO

@MarcusAbramovitch I empathize with your position here, and I don’t think the resolution was in bad faith, but I do think especially on markets where the description is not specific about deferring to Polymarket, you are responsible for an accurate choice.

I think you agree with this in principle given the Guatemalan election market.

It’s unfortunate, because both articles you link sort of categorically lump the sat launch into their “missile tests” reporting but never explicitly refer to it as such. Polymarket wasn’t highly traded and so it probably just slipped by without being contested - I’m not sure, I don’t really know how UMA works beyond skimming their docs.

predicted YES

@DanMan314 someone asked for their liquidity back and so I gave it since it was official and UMA was just verifying

predicted NO

@MarcusAbramovitch Any comment on why this was resolved YES? Market was at 20% and only had recent NO buys. No mention of missile tests in the news in past few days, and no mention of anything on the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile_tests.

predicted YES

@Dennis5a87 UMA oracle voted yes to resolve the polymarket question.

predicted YES

@Dennis5a87 The question was Missile test, not successful. They launched a test.

predicted NO

@MarcusAbramovitch I'm not disputing wether it was succesful or not. As far as I can find there wasn't any missle test in the last few days, and clearly seeing as the market was polling at 20% neither did the market. Which unsuccesful missle test are you refering to?

predicted NO

@MarcusAbramovitch I have a hard time understanding how a failed satellite launch can be seen as a "missile", let alone seeing it as a missile TEST. Once again, I feel supported by the market's movements, since the supposed launch on thursday it's moved down from 38% to 21%.

predicted YES

NK has announced a satellite launch attempt. Will this count as a missile test?

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