Pyongyang: North Korea's much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in an embarrassing failure early on 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 a failure. North Korea acknowledged that hours later in an announcement broadcast on state TV, saying the satellite had failed to enter into orbit. World leaders were swift to denounce the...
11:00 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Pyongyang: Fighter jets roared through the skies over downtown Pyongyang on Thursday as the world watched to see whether North Korea would defy international warnings and launch a long-range rocket over the Yellow Sea. The five-day window for the launch of a rocket mounted with an observation satellite opened on Thursday as North Koreans woke to details about developments at a Workers' Party conference where leader Kim Jong Un ascended...
09:43 AM, Apr 12, 2012
A defiant North-Korea has decided to go ahead with its planned rocket launch ignoring calls from around the world to stop. ...
09:31 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea was poised on Thursday to send a rocket into space as the nation's young leader ascended to new top political posts strengthening his hold on power. There was no word early on Thursday morning on the timing of the launch, which the North has said will take place sometime between Thursday and Monday. The launch, which the North says is for peaceful purposes, has raised international concern....
08:17 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Pyongyang: Impoverished North Korea rejected international protests over its planned long-range rocket launch and said on Wednesday that it was injecting fuel "as we speak", meaning it could blast off as early as Thursday. If all goes to plan, the launch, which North Korea's neighbors and the West say is a disguised ballistic missile test, will take a three-stage rocket over a sea separating the Korean peninsula from China before...
01:51 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Pyongyang: Isolated and impoverished North Korea said on Tuesday it was ready to go ahead with its proposed long-range rocket launch, an announcement that sparked immediate condemnation from South Korea and Russia and a plea from China, its main ally, for calm. The launch of the Unha-3 rocket, which North Korea says will merely put a weather satellite into space, breaches UN sanctions imposed to prevent Pyongyang from developing a...
05:36 PM, Apr 10, 2012
The countdown for the launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre began at 6.52 am on Saturday. ...
01:12 PM, Jul 10, 2010
If successful, India could have joined a select group of 5 countries with cryogenic technology. ...
11:29 PM, Apr 15, 2010
The 100-metre tall Ares I-X rocket sped into the sky over the Florida coast. ...
09:01 AM, Oct 29, 2009
People in USA started calling local TV channels reporting strange lights in sky. ...
10:02 AM, Sep 20, 2009
N Korea will boycott talks terminating its nuclear weapons programme. ...
03:55 PM, Apr 14, 2009
UN Security Council has agreed on a draft statement against rocket launch. ...
06:05 PM, Apr 13, 2009
There's pride in Pyongyang after Sunday's launch of a long-range rocket. ...
02:22 PM, Apr 07, 2009
N Korea went ahead with the launch despite mounting international pressure. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 05, 2009
The US President says North Korea has isolated itself from the world. ...
10:49 AM, Apr 05, 2009
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