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With rockets, so many things can and do go wrong

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Is North Korea serious about its race to space?

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

This satellite image shows North Korea’s Tongchang-ri launch facility, including the launch pad (center left), the rocket engine test stand (bottom) and the assembly building (top in green) on the nation’s northwest coast on March 28, 2012. (Associated Press/DigitalGlobe)

Despite warnings, N. Korea launches rocket

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Thursday, April 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Romney tags Obama for N. Korean defiance

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White House admonishes North Korea for missile launch

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This satellite image shows North Korea’s Tongchang-ri launch facility, including the launch pad (center left), the rocket engine test stand (bottom) and the assembly building (top in green) on the nation’s northwest coast on March 28, 2012. (Associated Press/DigitalGlobe)

North Korea fires long-range rocket

By Jean H. Lee - Associated Press

Japan Self-Defense Force members work April 11, 2011, on a unit of Japan Air Self-Defense Force's PAC-3 surface to air missile deployed in Ishigaki, Japan's southern most prefecture of Okinawa. Japan is on alert for North Korea's rocket which is expected to launch between April 12-16. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

Military chief: Worst-case scenario for North Korea launch is U.S. strike

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

North Korea seen playing up a crisis

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Gen. Mark A. Welsh III (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Counter-space battle craft

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Ryu Kum-chol, of North Korea's Committee for Space Technology, says the rocket launch will be a peaceful effort to put a weather-and-research satellite into orbit. (Associated Press)

Defenses brace for launch of North Korean rocket

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

South Korean soldiers at a Seoul train station watch a TV news program showing North Korea's Unha-3 rocket on Monday, April 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

N. Korea preparing rocket launch, atomic bomb test

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A North Korean soldier stands in front of the country's Unha-3 rocket, which was launched unsuccessfully on Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

S. Korea says North about to test nuke weapon

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

World Briefs: Rocket in position at launch pad

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A rocket lifts off from Musudan-ri, North Korea, in 2009. A launch that year took an easterly path that sent the rocket directly over Japan's main island. (KRT via Associated Press)

N. Korea launch an intel opportunity for U.S., allies

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

Television cameramen on April 3, 2012, film mobile Patriot missile launchers being transported to a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base from a port after arrival aboard a Japan maritime self-defense force transport ship on Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in preparation for North Korea's rocket launch, expected to take place sometime between April 12-16. (Associated Press)

Photos show North Korea readying for rocket launch

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Inside China: A powder keg in Northeast Asia

By Miles Yu

Ilario Pantano, who is seeking to become the Republican nominee to challenge Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre in North Carolina's 7th congressional district, suggests Saul Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals" as reading material during a meeting of supporters of the Fair Tax in Wilmington, NC, Wednesday, February 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)

Inside the Ring: New North Korea ICBM

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Nuke agency wary of N. Korea’s invitation

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Mobile Patriot missile launchers are unloaded off Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's 8,900-ton transport ship Osumi on April 3, 2012, after its arrival in Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

U.S. warns North Korea not to launch missile

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Three national leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit — (from left) Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Myanmar President Thein Sein — join hands during a group photo at the opening ceremony of the bloc's 20th summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Southeast Asian nations, China bring rift to summit

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press