North Korea May Test Bomb After Rocket Fiasco

The humiliating failure of North Korea’s much-publicised rocket launch may push the hermit state into testing a nuclear bomb in an attempt to save face, analysts say. Touted as a glorious demonstration of North Korean technology to mark the centenary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung, the rocket instead turned into a damp squib when it crashed into the sea. The 30m Unha-3 (Galaxy-3) rocket blasted off yesterday from a newly built space centre on the country’s northwestern coast. But shortly after launch it broke apart and the debris fell into the Yellow Sea off South Korea, the South’s Yonhap news agency quoted a high-ranking military source as saying. North Korea invited up to 200 foreign journalists to Pyongyang for the launch and the centenary commemorations on the weekend.

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