North Korea's attempt to put its first spy satellite into orbit on Wednesday proved unsuccessful, a setback to Kim Jong Un's aspirations to strengthen his military capability. North Korea committed to launch once more after figuring out what went wrong with their rocket liftoff and making an unusually quick admission of failure. South Korea and Japan briefly advised civilians to seek cover after the launch.
The South Korean military reported that it was retrieving an object believed to be a piece of the North Korean rocket that had crashed in waters 124 miles (200 kilometers) west of the island of Eocheongdo in the country's southwest. North Korea's launch of a satellite is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that forbid the nation from carrying out any launch using ballistic technology.
The Malligyong-1 satellite was launched at 6.37 a.m. from the North's Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in the northwest by the recently created Chollima-1 rocket. After the rocket's first and second stages separated, it lost thrust and landed off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula.
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