North Korea rocket appears to have broken up - CNN.com: Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN) -- Defying warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Friday, but it appears to have broken apart before escaping the earth's atmosphere, officials said.
No element of the rocket reached space, said a U.S. official, who based that conclusion on data collected by the United States from its first few moments aloft.
The failure was corroborated by a South Korean official, South Korea's Yonhap News reported.
The U.N. Security Council will meet Friday on the launch, two U.N. diplomats and a U.S. official told CNN.
The U.S. official said that, despite the launch's failure, "it will not change our response."
"This was supposed to be associated with (Kim Jong Un's) ascension to power. So for this thing to fail ... is incredibly embarrassing," said Victor Cha, former director of Asian affairs for the U.S. National Security Council and now a Georgetown University professor.
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