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Thursday, April 12, 2012 -- 7:10 PM EDT
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North Korea Launches Long-Range Missile, U.S. Official Says
Defying weeks of international warnings of more censure and even sanctions, North Korea reportedly launched a rocket on Friday, which Washington feared was a cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that one day might be able to carry a nuclear warhead.
The three-stage Unha-3 rocket blasted off from the Soehae launching site near North Korea's western corner with China, said South Korea's national news agency Yonhap and YTN, an all-news cable channel.
A spokesman at the Joint Chiefs of Staff who insisted on anonymity until the government's formal announcement said that South Korea believed that the launching indeed took place.
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