Japan's Okinawa prefecture was on high alert Wednesday morning following a North Korean launch of a suspected ballistic missile. But the rocket appears ... to evacuate inside buildings or underground.

North Korea launched a multistage rocket Friday morning, again defying countries that want it to stop pursuing advanced weapons, but it apparently blew up less than two minutes into flight.

A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country's second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un's hopes to operate ...

(CNN)-- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il expressed "great satisfaction" Sunday after his reclusive state launched a long-range rocket, according to state-run media. The North Korean government ...

Bosworth is not scheduled to visit North Korea. "There are no plans for that delegation to travel to North Korea," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said ... launched the rocket April 5.

In late May, a North Korean rocket carrying a military reconnaissance ... The fuel in such missiles is already loaded inside, so they are more mobile than rockets using liquid propellant and ...

TASS/. The South Korean military are considering the possibility that the North Korean rocket launched earlier on Wednesday could have exploded during the flight, the Yonhap news agency reported ...

SEOUL--North Korea launched a long-range rocket in a southern direction on Thursday, South Korea's military said, in the North's likely second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit. South ...