North Korea Rocket Launch Failed (Photos, Pictures)
According to reports that North Korea’s much awaitedlong-range rocket launch failed to reach its destination. North Korea launch the rocket on Friday but itwas a failure. The second failure of North Korea's rocket launch.
North Korea’s rocket name is Unha-3 rocket which its purposeis to put a weather satellite into orbit although critics believed it wasdesigned to enhance the capacity of North Korea to design a ballistic missile delivera nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States.
North Korea Unha-3 rocket Photo Picture
Here’s the full details regarding the North Korea Unha -3 rocketlaunch
A spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Seoul toldjournalists that the rocket had broken up and crashed into the sea a fewminutes after launch.
Officials from Japan confirmed the mission had failed, while ABC News citedU.S. officials saying it had failed, although there was no immmediateindication of where it fell.The rocket's flight was set to take it over a sea separating the Koreanpeninsula, with an eventual launch of a third stage of the rocket in seas nearthe Philippines that would have put the satellite into orbit.
This was North Korea's second consecutive failure to get a satellite intoorbit, although it claimed success with a 2009 launch and there was no commenton the launch from North Korea's official media.
The Unha-3 rocket took off from a new launch site on the west coast of NorthKorea, near the Chinese border.
The launch had been timed to coincide with the 100th birthday celebrationsof the isolated and impoverished state's founder, Kim Il-sung, and came after afood aid deal with the United States had hinted at an easing of tensions on theworld's most militarised border.
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