North Korea's rocket launch ends in failure

North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket launch on Friday ended in apparent failure, South Korean officials said, dealing a blow to the prestige of the reclusive and impoverished state that defied international pressure to push ahead with the plan.

North Korea said it wanted the Unha-3 rocket to put a weather satellite into orbit, although critics believed it was designed to enhance the capacity of North Korea to design a ballistic missile deliver a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States.

A spokesman for the defence ministry in Seoul told journalists that the rocket had broken up and crashed into the sea a few minutes after launch.

Officials from Japan confirmed the mission had failed, while ABC News cited U.S. officials saying it had failed, although there was no immmediate indication of where it fell.

The rocket's flight was set to take it over a sea separating the Korean peninsula, with an eventual launch of a third stage of the rocket in seas near the Philippines that would have put the satellite into orbit.

This was North Korea's second consecutive failure to get a satellite into orbit, although it claimed success with a 2009 launch and there was no comment on the launch from North Korea's official media.

The Unha-3 rocket took off from a new launch site on the west coast of North Korea, near the Chinese border.

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[MrAdrian65150]

While psy is dancing around the world

[luly61951]

whats funny is america was right ^__^

[Nicholas Newman]

Fail

[10019500]

old fuckin bitches

[Tom Robinson]

And this my friends, is why we don't need to worry about North Korea and their nuclear missles

[Jermaine Griffith]

chemical propelled rockets arent they way to get things done anymore...

[soldier68able]

No, That is what all way's happens when N.K Fires(Fails).

[Boss1186]

South Korea: Oppa Gangnam style!!!

North Korea: Oppa rocket fail!!

[theghosthamster]

Fmarules69@ where r u from? Maybe you are Being brain washed into hating America to become a terrorist.

[oPieSalto]

Everything you just said is ignorant and based on zero facts. You are probably just a small child playing on the Internet who doesn't know jack shit. By the way, it's spelled Iraq, not irak.... Retard

[fmarules69]

oh sure, so you fought the gulf war just for fun, also fought with irak (oil rich country) because of the terrorists, SUUURE, and also you helped the european countries in WW2 just because you are heroes (big weapons sale for the US that one), if you are not aware of the real intentions of your goverment, then you are more brainwashed than the rest of the world thinks

[Alexa Beck]

NO, our dips hit president won't let us drill for our own oil in the gulf, so we pay for, not steal, oil from Saudi Arabia, which is no where near North Korea.. so yeah, u smoke dope or some shit?