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Arab News
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council on Monday strongly condemned North Korea's rocket launch, urged tightening of existing UN sanctions and warned of further action if Pyongyang carries out another missile launch or nuclear test. China, a permanent veto-wielding...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
The UN Security Council on Monday tightened sanctions against North Korea over its failed rocket launch and warned of new "action" if the isolated state stages a new nuclear test...The council ordered new "entities and items" to be added to the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in his first televised speech -- and only days after an embarrassing failed rocket launch -- that he will boost the country's military strength. The policy of "military first" remains the cornerstone of the...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
After several days of closed-door haggling, the UN Security Council is hoping to adopt a statement on Monday condemning North Korea's botched rocket launch, council diplomats said. US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on Friday that...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
North Korea will bolster its military strength, Kim Jong Un said Sunday in his first public speech since being named the country's leader. The 38-year-old who assumed power from his late father in December spoke for 20 minutes at a rally of thousands...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The third Kim to rule North Korea made it clear before the applauding crowd that the military first policies of his nation will not change over the future. "In order to enhance the dignity of Songun (military first) Chosun (Korea) and to accomplish...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Photo by CNN North Korea has reportedly revealed a new missile during celebrations marking the 100th anniversary since the birth of late North Korea founder Kim Il-sung. According to international media, Japanese and South Korean military analysts...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
A crowd of North Korean military members clap in a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a mass meeting called North Korea's ruling party on Saturday, April 14, 2012. North Korea will mark the 100th birth anniversary of the late leader Kim Il...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
China's foreign ministry said Sunday that Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi talked with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan. A ministry statement appealed for all sides to "remain calm and...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Failure of the North Korea rocket led to U.S. and South Korean speculation the North would stage a new nuclear test as a "provocative action," officials said. Preparations for a nuclear test, seen by some as a way for new leader Kim Jong Un and the...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
North Korea on Friday launched a rocket bearing a satellite, but it crashed into the sea less than two minutes after being launched. The failure drew a sigh of relief from the international community, which had been closely monitoring the development...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
A senior Japanese defence official on Saturday urged "crisis-management measures" ahead of a possible nuclear test by North Korea after its humiliating failure to launch a rocket. The launch was supposed to be the centrepiece of weekend...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate program from the one that led to a failed Friday rocket launch, a South Korean TV station reported today. YTN quoted an intelligence source as saying the communist state...
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Seattle Times
| 1 year ago
LEE JIN-MAN / AP South Korean soldiers in Seoul buy train tickets to return to base. North Korea defied warnings and launched a rocket, but the launch failed. A recent portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Click the graphic above to see an...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
North Korea's abject humiliation in front of the world after failing to launch a rocket into space Friday has led to concerns that the unstable regime will step up plans to detonate a nuclear device. The rocket, which military experts say was...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
In a highly unusual move, the North, which still claims success with a 2009 satellite that others say failed, admitted in a state television broadcast seen by its 23 million people that the latest satellite had not made it into orbit. The failure is...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
Honolulu What the North Koreans intended as a long-range, three-stage rocket flight sputtered ignominiously when the rocket broke apart and fell into the Yellow Sea less than two minutes after its launch yesterday. The regime in Pyongyang claims the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
A North Korean soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 rocket prior to launch...Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters After weeks of preparations and intense publicity, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea finally launched its Unha-3 carrier on...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below ''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.'' All North Korean military units were placed on...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Security Council met behind closed doors Friday morning to discuss the launch by North Korea of a missile that the United States charges was a violation of U.N. resolutions...Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said the launch "is in direct violation" of...
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
North Korea's failed rocket launch has dealt a severe blow to the country's new regime, which hoped it would mark the start of a new chapter under recently appointed leader Kim Jong Un. The failure severely dented North Korea's pride ahead of the...
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
The North should not attempt another launch or nuclear test, which will only contribute to heightening tensions in the region. The launch came after its young leader Kim Jong Un was promoted to the post of the first secretary of the ruling Workers'...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
AP Effigy of North Korea's Kim Jong Un on burning mock missile at Seoul protest, South Korea, April 13, 2012. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has joined international leaders in condemning North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket that...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Washington and its allies have condemned North Korea for launching a satellite rocket which broke up over the sea shortly after take-off. Accusing the communist state of threatening regional security, the US said it had only isolated itself still...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
For a regime which stage-manages everything and almost never admits to failure, what has happened could not be more disastrous for North Korea. The rocket was meant as the piece de resistance in celebrating the centenary of Kim Il-sung, the founding...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Korean Missile Launch Stephanie Ho Beijing Photo: Reuters A man looks at a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by Chinese artist Yan Lei at the China International Gallery Exposition 2012 in Beijing, April 13, 2012. China is calling for calm...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
Jung Yeon-je / AFP/Getty Images South Koreans in Seoul watch a TV screen showing a graphic of North Korea's rocket launch. The rocket apparently broke up, collapsing soon after liftoff. Images More News Seoul -- Defying weeks of international...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
The much-anticipated North Korean rocket launch that had threatened to cause a further deterioration in the relationship between the reclusive communist state and its neighbours today ended in failure. The rocket suffered a catastrophic structural...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
In the aftermath of North Korea's failed attempt to fire a rocket into orbit, leaders in Washington and Asian capitals moved Friday to condemn the authoritarian nation while also containing its next move a balance that has proven elusive during...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Nations condemned North Korea for launching a rocket against international warnings Friday, even though it blew up moments after liftoff. "North Korea is only further isolating itself by engaging in provocative acts, and is wasting its money on...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt. The...
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Sacramento Bee
| 1 year ago
South Korea North Korea defied international warnings of censure and further isolation today, launching a rocket that the United States and its allies called a provocative pretext for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that might one...
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Kuwait News Business
| 1 year ago
Korea rocket launch Beijing, April 13, 2012 (AFP) -China -- North Korea's sole major ally -- 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.
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China Post
| 1 year ago
Security Council resolution restricting the use of ballistic technology, the Interfax news agency cited an unidentified Russian Foreign Ministry official as saying on Friday. Russia had earlier urged Pyongyang not to conduct the launch, saying it...
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GMA News
| 1 year ago
North Korea admitted Friday its long-range rocket launch had failed, disintegrating mid-air and plunging into the sea soon after liftoff in a major embarrassment for the reclusive state. Defying international warnings, the North went ahead with what...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
North Korea admitted its much hyped long-range rocket failed to deliver a satellite into orbit on Friday while US and South Korean officials said it crashed into the sea a few minutes after launch, dealing a blow to the reclusive state. Pyongyang had...
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The Jakarta Post
| 1 year ago
World North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in an embarrassing failure early Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff. Within minutes of the early morning launch, the US and South Korea declared it...
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Times of India
| 1 year ago
News of North Korea's abortive rocket launch was flashed around the world on Friday but there were four long hours of silence before Pyongyang admitted the highly publicised attempt had failed. "The earth observation satellite failed to enter its...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
North KoreaNorth Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in failure early Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff. North Korea acknowledged in an announcement broadcast on state TV that a satellite launched...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters North Korea 's failed rocket launch has drawn condemnation from around the world, after...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The official confirmation followed the reports of failed rocket launch already announced by the South Korea n and US officials. The rocket launch was at 07:39 local time on (22:39 GM Thursday). A few minutes after the launch the rocket lost...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 1 year ago
North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket crashed into the sea about a minute after launch today, South Korean and other officials said, dealing a blow to the prestige of the reclusive and impoverished state. Pyongyang had defied international...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
North Korea launched a long-range rocket Friday morning in defiance of repeated international protests, but it failed to reach orbit, breaking apart soon after the blastoff, U.S. and South Korean officials said. The three-stage rocket carrying a...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 12, 2012 South Koreans stop in a train station in Seoul to watch a TV report about North Korea's rocket launch on April 13. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images) A defiant North Korea went ahead with the launch of its highly controversial long-range...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Launch seen as stepping stone to developing long-range nuclear ballistic missile fails, dealing blow to reclusive regime. North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket launch on Friday ended in apparent failure, South Korean officials said, dealing a...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
The three-stage rocket, called the Unha-3, blasted off from the Soehae launch site near North Korea's western corner with China , at about 7:39 a.m., the South Korea Defense Ministry said. There was no immediate announcement of the launch from the...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below The Unha-3 rocket took off from a new launch site on the west coast of North Korea, near the Chinese border, and if successful will enhance Pyongyang's ability to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
A spokesman for the Defence Ministry in Seoul told reporters at a briefing that the launch at taken place from North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station at 7.39am local time and that South Korea and the United States were checking whether it...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Over that time, he built a powerful cult of personality for himself to secure his unquestioned rule and laid the foundation for a political dynasty which would eventually pass onto his son, Kim Jong-il, and more recently his grandson, Kim...
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The Economist
| 1 year ago
North Korea's ruling family, nothing if not solipsistic, is showering itself with birthday presents. As The Economist went to press, the Unha-3 rocket (pictured) was fuelled and ready to carry a satellite into orbit, ostensibly to monitor weather...
