North Korea Rocket Launch Fails
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Washington: The US has condemned North Korea's 'propaganda displays' after its 'failed' missile launch.
It said Pyongyang's "failed" missile launch was a provocative act that breached past agreements and harmed Asian security.
"North Korea is only further isolating itself by engaging in provocative acts, and is wasting its money on weapons and propaganda displays while the North Korean people go hungry," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
The White House statement also said the US is prepared to engage with North Korea but the North must adhere to its international obligations, adding that the US remains vigilant to the North Korean provocations and is committed to the security of its allies.
"While this action is not surprising given North Korea's pattern of aggressive behavior, any missile activity by North Korea is of concern to the international community.
The United States remains vigilant in the face of North Korean provocations, and is fully committed to the security (of) our allies in the region" spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.
According to the US, the North had fired a ballistic Taepodong-2 missile.
The North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and the US military's Northern Command "detected and tracked a launch of the North Korean Taepodong-2 missile," NORAD said in a statement, adding that "at no time were the missile or the resultant debris a threat."
The US military said the missile disintegrated shortly after lift-off and that the missile never posed a threat, with no debris falling on land.
According to Japan and South Korea which had been tracking the rocket since its early-morning launch, the debris of the rocket fell into the sea.
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I'm telling u... launching a rocket up to space during Friday 13th is bad luck...
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heng ah................
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Romney denounces N. Korea launch, blames Obama
WASHINGTON (AFP) - United States (US) Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday denounced the launch by North Korea of a long-range rocket and said it underscored the weakness of President Barack Obama.
'I condemn in the strongest possible terms the attempted North Korean missile launch,' Mr Romney said in a statement after news of the launch, which Washington, Seoul and Tokyo said appeared to have failed.
'Although the missile test failed, Pyongyang's action is another blatant violation of unanimous United Nations Security Council resolutions and demonstrates once again that Pyongyang is committed to developing long-range missiles with the potential of carrying nuclear weapons.'
Mr Romney said the weapons programme 'poses a clear and growing threat to the United States, one for which President Obama has no effective response.'
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kwinchana.
but please dont try again.
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N. Korea says satellite 'failed to enter orbit'
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) - North Korea said Friday its satellite had failed to enter its preset orbit, as the launch sparked international condemnation.
'The earth observation satellite failed to enter its preset orbit.
Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure,' the North's official news agency said without elaborating.
The North's admission of failure marked a departure from its past. It has insisted that two previous attempts in 1998 and 2009 to put satellites into orbit succeeded even though both clearly failed.
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it did not even get near.
shd just put the title as
N. Korea says satellite 'failed'.
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cannot just say failed... failed could be "fail to launch", "fail to take off" etc..
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N. Korea ally China urges 'restraint' after rocket launch
BEIJING (AFP) - North Korea's sole major ally, China, on Friday urged 'calm' and 'restraint' from all sides after Pyongyang's failed rocket launch drew strong condemnation from the United States and its allies.
'We hope all relevant parties can maintain calm and restraint, and refrain from acts that would harm peace and stability on the peninsula and in the region,' foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in a statement.
He also called on all sides to maintain 'contact and dialogue' in the brief statement, which gave no other details.
North Korea on Friday went ahead with what it termed a launch to put a satellite into orbit, but the long-range rocket disintegrated mid-air and plunged into the sea soon after take-off.
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when u fail , ppl all laugh/talk u
when u pass , they jealous/nt happy
USA is like this
when u bulid a nuclear object , they complain complain complain -
Originally posted by QX179R:
N. Korea ally China urges 'restraint' after rocket launch
BEIJING (AFP) - North Korea's sole major ally, China, on Friday urged 'calm' and 'restraint' from all sides after Pyongyang's failed rocket launch drew strong condemnation from the United States and its allies.
'We hope all relevant parties can maintain calm and restraint, and refrain from acts that would harm peace and stability on the peninsula and in the region,' foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in a statement.
He also called on all sides to maintain 'contact and dialogue' in the brief statement, which gave no other details.
North Korea on Friday went ahead with what it termed a launch to put a satellite into orbit, but the long-range rocket disintegrated mid-air and plunged into the sea soon after take-off.
note how this article... from Beijing AFP... on "drew strong condemnation from the United States and its allies." with extra stress on United State and not other neighbouring countries... -
N. Korea admits failure as world raps rocket launch
PYONGYANG (AFP) - North Korea admitted on Friday its heralded long-range rocket launch had failed, disintegrating mid-air and plunging into the sea soon after take-off in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state.
Defying international warnings, the North went ahead with what it termed a launch to put a peaceful satellite into orbit, drawing condemnation from world leaders who said the 'provocative' act threatened regional security.
Some four hours after the rocket reportedly exploded over the Yellow Sea, it admitted the satellite had failed to enter orbit, adding 'scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure'.
The United States (US) and its allies, who condemned the exercise as a disguised ballistic missile test banned by United Nations (UN) resolutions, reacted strongly.
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got video?
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After rocket fiasco, N. Korea may test bomb: analysts
HONG KONG: The humiliating failure of North Korea's much-publicised rocket launch may push the hermit state into testing a nuclear bomb in an attempt to save face, analysts said Friday.
Touted as a glorious demonstration of North Korean technology to mark the centenary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung, the rocket instead turned into a damp squib when it crashed into the sea.
The 30-metre (100-foot) Unha-3 (Galaxy-3) rocket blasted off early Friday morning from a newly built space centre on the country's northwestern coast.
But shortly after launch it broke apart and the debris fell into the Yellow Sea off South Korea, the South's Yonhap news agency quoted a high-ranking military source as saying.
"North Korea executed its highly anticipated missile launch and with its failure managed to achieve the second-worst outcome imaginable. The worst would have been hitting China," Marcus Noland of the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics wrote in a blog post.
"The North Koreans have managed in a single stroke to not only defy the UN Security Council, the United States, and even their patron China, but also demonstrate ineptitude."
North Korea invited up to 200 foreign journalists to Pyongyang for the launch and the centenary commemorations on the weekend, the largest number of overseas media ever welcomed in to the reclusive state.
The "humiliation" of the rocket failure, Noland said, might force new leader Kim Jong-Un -- who took over after his father, Kim Jong-Il, died in December -- to conduct a nuclear weapon test to restore the country's honour.
"It would be easy to gloat, but paradoxically, the missile failure may have actually increased the danger the world faces," he wrote.
"Before the launch, it was probable that North Korea would conduct a third nuclear test; now it is a virtual certainty."
Analysts say satellite imagery showing what looks like preparations, and the communist regime's previous patterns of behaviour -- with missile tests followed by bomb tests -- suggest a third nuclear test could be imminent.
"Now, after this fiasco, it seems likely that such a test will move forward at the earliest moment," Noland wrote.
Rory Medcalf, international security programme director at the Lowy Institute think-tank in Australia, said the regime's plans to test a uranium-fuelled nuclear device could be pushed forward.
"I will not say definitively that we are going to see a nuclear test or some other provocation but I think the chances are higher today than they were yesterday," he told AFP.
North Korea has said the rocket launch was a peaceful attempt to put a satellite into orbit but the United States, South Korea and Japan have condemned it as a poorly disguised ballistic missile test.
UN resolutions ban the North from testing long-range missiles that could be used to launch a satellite or a nuclear warhead.
The North is believed to have six to eight plutonium-fuelled atom bombs, and analysts say it is working on a uranium-based device. It last conducted a nuclear test in 2009.
Jingdong Yuan, acting director at the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney, said that if the country's military leaders wanted to push on with a nuclear test "they will have their way".
But the temptation will be weighed against the risk that another embarrassing failure will ruin the centennial celebrations, he said.
IHS Jane's managing director Tate Nurkin said the "biggest concern about North Korea is their weakness not their strength".
"We don't think that North Korea is seeking conflict. They are seeking attention and the concessions that come with that attention that can help prop up the regime," he said in a statement.
North Korea has been developing missiles for decades both for what it terms self-defence and as a lucrative export commodity.
Previous tests have had mixed results, and the last long-range launch in 2009, which came shortly before the nuclear test, is also believed to have been unsuccessful.
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N.Korea rocket launch "regrettable": MFA
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it was regrettable that North Korea decided to proceed with the rocket launch.
The MFA spokesman said MFA hopes that North Korea will avoid any other action that would violate United Nations Security Council resolutions.
This comes after North Korea went ahead with what it termed as a rocket launch to put a satellite into orbit.
Several hours after the rocket exploded over the Yellow Sea, North Korea admitted the satellite had failed to enter orbit, adding "scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure".
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Looks like it was a chinese rocket.So bad quality!
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N. Korea places troops on heightened vigilance: S. Korea
SEOUL: North Korea has placed troops on heightened vigilance, the South's defence minister said on Friday as the failed rocket launch drew international condemnation.
"North Korean (troops) were placed on heightened vigilance," Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin told a parliamentary committee, according to his office, although it was not clear whether the move followed the failed launch.
Kim gave no details on the movement of North Korean troops but condemned the rocket launch as a provocation.
The minister suggested at a separate meeting with General James Thurman, head of US troops in South Korea, and US ambassador Sung Kim that the international community needs "proper sanctions", a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
North Korea has said the rocket would place a satellite in orbit for peaceful research purposes, but Western critics saw the launch as a thinly veiled ballistic missile test, banned by United Nations resolutions.
The defence committee of South Korea's parliament adopted a resolution calling for a "firm" response to any additional provocations by North Korea.
The North should "immediately stop developing weapons of mass destruction and long-range delivery devices" that raise tensions on the Korean peninsula, the resolution said.
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Russia, China, India call for 'restraint' over N.Korea
MOSCOW, April 13, 2012 (AFP) - Russia, China and India on Friday jointly called all parties in the standoff over North Korea to show restraint after the reclusive state's failed rocket launch sparked global concern.
"We are convinced that the reaction to these challenges needs to be exclusively diplomatic and political," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said alongside his Chinese and Indian counterparts after a meeting in Moscow.
"We call on all parties to show maximum responsibility and restraint and to make efforts for a renewal of six party talks."
Lavrov said the frozen six party talks between two Koreas, the US, Japan, Russia and China was a format "which has no alternative" as a means for solving the crisis on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea earlier announced that the much-heralded long-range rocket launch had failed when it plunged into the sea soon after lift-off.
The Russian foreign ministry in a separate statement said that the launch "aroused regret" and outright contradicted a UN Security Council resolution as well as defying international pressure.
"This time, the failure of this cosmic experiment fortunately did not cause damage for other countries," it said.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said at a news conference alongside Lavrov that Beijing was "concerned by North Korea's decision" and expressed hope that "the corresponding sides can show restraint".
"We hope that the corresponding sides, by supporting and restoring dialogue, will promote mutual understanding through joint efforts and promote the six party process," he added, speaking through an interpreter.
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Russia-China-India "strategic triangle"
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Russia-China-India_%22strategic_triangle%22
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die, ego bruised. wat's next.
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the one who laugh the loudest will get a surprise next.
for all you know, this is just smokescreen.
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一代�如一代
哈哈哈
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N. Korea developing new long-range missile: report
SEOUL: North Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate programme from the one that led to a failed rocket launch this week, a South Korean TV station reported Saturday.
YTN quoted an intelligence source as saying the communist state carried out four tests over 16 weeks until early this year to develop an inter-continental missile at a test facility at Musudan-ri on the northeastern coast.
The tests were aimed at improving engines and propellant fuel for the missile, code-named KN-08, the source said.
The experiments took place amid ongoing talks with the United States that resulted in a February deal under which the North agreed to freeze its nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for food aid, YTN said.
AFP was unable immediately to confirm the story independently.
North Korea, which admitted its long-range rocket launch failed Friday, has been developing missiles for decades both for what it terms self-defence and as a lucrative export commodity.
It said Friday's launch was aimed at putting a peaceful satellite in orbit.
But the United States and its allies condemned what they see as an apparent disguised test of ballistic missile technology in defiance of UN resolutions.
Washington has halted plans to send food aid to Pyongyang.
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alamak, ppl always see at face valve
NK oridi launched many rockets / missile , no ppl see her intention?
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