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News & Announcements => News Headlines => International News => Topic started by: agentx on April 12, 2012, 06:37:47 PM
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get ready for WWIII http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2579548.shtml?cat=1 (http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2579548.shtml?cat=1)
North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday, South Korean defense officials said, defying international warnings against a launch widely seen as a provocation.
In Washington, U.S. officials said the launch may have failed.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters in a nationally televised news conference in Seoul that North Korea launched the rocket around 7:39 a.m.
He said officials were trying to determine whether it was a success. He provided no further details, and declined to say how South Korea confirmed the launch in the west coast hamlet of Tongchang-ri.
There was no word in Pyongyang about the launch, its third attempt to send a satellite into space since 1998.
North Korea had announced it would send a three-stage rocket mounted with a satellite as part of celebrations honoring national founder Kim Il Sung, whose 100th birthday they are celebrating Sunday.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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better not be one.. just wait after i'm done with my trip to S.Korea and China first. :-X
then again, i'm glad I bought insurance on my airfare.
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The U.S. and S.Korean government believes the rocket broke apart in mid-air and fell into the ocean.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/north-korea-launches-long-range-missile-232147093.html
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agentx, a war isn't official 'til one of the fighting countries has declared it.
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The U.S. and S.Korean government believes the rocket broke apart in mid-air and fell into the ocean.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/north-korea-launches-long-range-missile-232147093.html
yes. what an embarrassment to N. Korea.
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OMG! I almost had a heartattack... until i read further... :2funny:
I always have to calm you down, eh?
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U did not provide any fact or pm me to warn me this morning before reading this thread. :knuppel2:
cuz i didn't know you were freaked out ...