North Korea Launches Long Range Rocket
North Korea fires rocket into space North Korea has defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket carrying what it has said is a satellite.
The rocket took off at around 9am Pyongyang time from the North's west coast, according to South Korea's defence ministry.
In a state TV broadcast, a female North Korean announcer, wearing a traditional dress, said the "epochal" launch, personally ordered by leader Kim Jong-Un, had "successfully put our Earth observation satellite ... into orbit".
Japan's NHK broadcaster reported that debris from the rocket was believed to have fallen about 155 miles (250km) off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula into the East China Sea about 14 minutes after the launch.
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