North Korean Rocket Disintegrates After Launch

South Korea's Defense Ministry said the 30-meter-long (100-foot-long) Unha-3 (Galaxy-3) rocket was launched at 07:39 a.m. local time on Friday (2239 GMT on Thursday) from the Tongchang-ri launch site on the Yellow Sea coast in the country's northwest, Xinhua reported.

However, the projectile broke into multiple pieces soon after the launch and fell into the ocean. “It seems that the rocket has failed. A few minutes after the launch, the rocket disintegrated into several pieces and lost its altitude,” Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told journalists .... Read more at http://www.presstv.ir