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.

TASS/. The South Korean military has managed to lift a fragment of a North Korean carrier rocket that plunged into the Yellow Sea following an unsuccessful reconnaissance satellite launch on May ...

(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.

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 ...

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 ...

North Korea said its latest attempt to launch a military reconnaissance satellite failed in flight on Monday during the rocket’s first stage, which featured a new “liquid oxygen and petroleum ...