North Korea defied international protests by launching a long-range rocket on Friday, but it fell apart and harmlessly crashed into the sea shortly after blast off.
North Korea Rocket Launch
A South Korean passenger looks at a TV report on North Korea's rocket launch at Seoul railway station, April 13, 2012. (Reuters)
A South Korean woman watches a TV news report showing a computer generated image of North Korea's long-range rocket at Seoul train station. (AP)
A picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is burned by anti-North Korea protesters during a rally denouncing North Korea's long-range rocket launch in Seoul, South Korea, April 13, 2012. (AP)
Policemen watch as protesters, from conservative, right-wing and anti-North Korean civic groups, burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un bound on a mock North Korean missile during a protest in Seoul, April 13, 2012. (Reuters)
North Korean officials and foreign journalists leave the launch pad after a visit to see the rocket Unha-3 at Tangachai -ri space center on April 8, 2012. (AFP photo)
Hamgyeongbuk-do Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site View. Upper left: West Tunnel Upper right: East Tunnel Lower left: South Tunnel (Photo taken April 1, 2012 by US Quickbird )
Hamgyeongbuk-do Punggye-ri Nuclear Test South Tunnel. (Yellow box): Pile of earth and sand (Yellow arrow): Entrance of new tunnel. (Photo taken on April 1, 2012 by US Quickbird)
Outside the General Satellite Control and Command Center in North Korea. (Sungwon Baik/VOA)
North Korean technicians work at the control room of the Tongchang-ri space center on April 8, 2012. (AFP photo)
Inside the General Satellite Control and Command Center in North Korea. (Sungwon Baik/VOA)
North Korean technicians check the Unha-3 rocket at Tangachai -ri space center on April 8, 2012. (AFP photo)