North Korea rocket 'launches, breaks apart'
North Korea has launched a long-range rocket but it appears to have broken apart, according to reports.
US officials told CNN the rocket had launched but said the rocket then broke into pieces.
According to projected trajectories captured by an international news crew the rocket was predicted to fly over parts of Australia.
"North Korea launched a long-range rocket at 07:39 am (2239 GMT Thursday)," a South Korean defence ministry spokesman told AFP.
"US and South Korean intelligence authorities are seeking to determine whether it was a successful launch," he said.
Yonhap news agency also quoted a government source as saying that South Korea was tracking the rocket's trajectory.
Japananese authorities told AFP that the North Korean 'flying object' had fallen into the ocean.
Immediately after the launch, South Korea issued an order urging residents near the inter-Korean border to seek shelter to protect themselves from any debris that might fall from the rocket, Yonhap said.
North Korea has previously said the rocket will place a satellite in orbit for peaceful research purposes, but Western critics see the launch as a thinly veiled ballistic missile test, banned by United Nations resolutions.
The Unha-3 rocket, mounted with an Earth observation satellite, was launched as part of celebrations in the country in the lead up to Sunday, the 100th anniversary of the late President Kim Il Sung's birth. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8450754/north-korea-launches-rocket-report
Suckers 
It was sabotaged by the USA
Couple of short blokes and a little blonde sheila
Team America - Fk Yeah!
Looks like the universe didn't want to listen to Dear Leader songs for an eternity beamed from that wind-up satelite.
did anyone see that piece of sh it .A rocket nerd mate of mine put together a relica saturn 5 rocket with a few g motors that was more professional than that load of junk.What about the "command centre " with a fe w dodgy commodore 64's .Who are they kidding .These Bozo's should be taken out once and for all .Whats with the latest kim jung un or whatever his name is .They are weak as piss and vulnerable .Now is the time to bring on the Korean spring uprising .those clowns waste precious resources on this joke while the nation starves .What the hell are the CIA up to , they are just as useless as the North Korean gits who orchestrated this poor excuse for a joke .
North Koreas rocket was shot down by aliens after consulting reasonable earthlings on the best approach unfortunately when they rang America they were to busy trying to control the worlds oil then they tried holland but no one answered cause they were all at the cafe enjoying life when they got through to me I was eating a pie watching footy drinking beer so on behalf of anyone who actually gives a **** about overturning a dictator ran country who starves its own people tortures and kIlls them the aliens stepped in and did their bit cause no one else would and for that thankyou also when alien invasion occurs don't complain cause clearly this lord of the flies scenario has gone on for far to long or did you actually try make the world a better place oh we'll it's time to get back to my important life watching porn and drinking beer cause that's what matters
Failure or not, they were still testing an ICBM which if it WAS successful, they would be threatening other nations with.
Meanwhile that regime is starving it's own people.
Perhaps cisco that nation is set-up by the powers that be,to be the bad guy?
North Korean ICBM,bet much of the technology was given to them by the west.
The grand chess-board i think Brzrezinski called it.
hows the pathetic hush hush from North horea though. was like a kid that just did something embarresing and wont talk about it. 
I reckon they deliberately crashed it so the rest of the world doesn't think they are a threat
Maybe they built more than one kept us busy watching them fail and while our attention was averted went about being silent achievers ?
