North Korea Rocket Launch Failed (Photos, Pictures)

North Korea Rocket Launch Failed (Photos, Pictures)

According to reports that North Korea’s much awaited long-range rocket launch failed to reach its destination.  North Korea launch the rocket on Friday but it was a failure. The second failure of North Korea's rocket launch.

North Korea’s rocket name is Unha-3 rocket which its purpose is 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.

 North Korea Unha-3 rocket Photo Picture

Here’s the full details regarding the North Korea Unha -3 rocket launch

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.

The launch had been timed to coincide with the 100th birthday celebrations of the isolated and impoverished state's founder, Kim Il-sung, and came after a food aid deal with the United States had hinted at an easing of tensions on the world's most militarised border.

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