North Korea defies West with second firing of long-range rocket [View all]
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Source: Los Angeles Times
By Barbara Demick
December 11, 2012, 6:23 p.m.
SEOUL -- North Korea launched a long-range rocket Wednesday morning in defiance of international warnings that the second test-firing of a missile this year would violate international sanctions ...
Japanese authorities had threatened to shoot down any missile fired over its territory but didn’t deploy its anti-missile defenses, the South Korean defense officials said.
Japan’s NHK network reported that missile fragments fell west of the Korean peninsula about 14 minutes after the launch, after passing over the island of Okinawa.
In announcing last week that the launch would be made between Dec. 10 and Dec. 22, North Korea described the mission as a peaceful test of its ability to put a satellite in orbit. The U.S., South Korea and other nations, however, condemned the planned firing as a brazen attempt to demonstrate Pyongyang’s ability to reach U.S. territory with a nuclear warhead ...
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