PYONGYANG, North Korea — Defying international concerns, North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday that splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea about a minute after takeoff in an apparent failure, South Korean and U.S. officials North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday,
South Korean and U.S. officials said, defying international warnings against moving forward with a launch widely seen as a provocation.In direct defiance of international pressure to cease pursuing advanced weaponry, North Korea launched a multistage rocket on Friday at 7:30 a.m. local time.
The UN Security Council is likely to rap North Korea for its rocket launch, and a defiant North Korea could respond with a nuclear test – following a pattern that has played out before. By Don Kirk, Correspondent / April 12, 2012 Foreign journalists With the situation in Syria still
uncertain and North Korea launching a long-range missile Thursday ahead of crucial talks with Iran over its nuclear program, the Group of Eight bloc urged speedy resolutions to the trio of front-burner issues.
WHILE ATTENTION focused on North Korea this week ahead of Friday morning's missile launch, hundreds of Americans, Koreans, Japanese and others gathered in Washington to examine a different aspect of life in that communist nation: its “hidden gulag.
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