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To have to determine but it does appear to violate the agreement between the u.n. and north korea. >> i believe that the first rocket launch occurred back in might, this being the fourth time they have attempted to do this. >> certainly there have been a number of attempts, and it appears that none of them succeeded and that is also an issue. were not looking at a single failure, were looking at something that has to be embarrassing to the leaders. what a u.s. official told me is that every nucl...

The china president not to go ahead with this. there was a deal between the u.s. and north korea that if it suspended all of its testing and its nuclear testing that the u.s. will provide food aid, a substantial amount of food aid and what press secretary jay carney has been saying in recent days, that deal would be undermined if north korea moved forward with a rocket launch. so we are expecting a statement from the white house. hopefully that statement will provide some clair cla trity inf whe...

The government brought us in to see this rocket launch and a lot of journalist could see the rocket launch and an opportunity to witness life in the country and how they handle a big event like this, so many journalist came. were all here, and were struggling now to find out what happened. this is suspicious, the government clearly wanted journalist to see it, the fact that they didnt tell anyone about this suggest that it didnt go off as planned. >> so your mentioning this is suspicio suspiciou...

Lousy policy options. ideally, the united states would have -- would be working on a bunch of combination of policy involving carrots and sticks. china continues to shield north korea. -- >> shepard: philip yun pardon the interruption. there is breaking news now on othe fox news channel. its the bottom of the hour. we have just learned from a u.s. official that the rocket launch, in fact, did fail. jennifer griffin got the word. she is live at the pentagon. jennifer? >> shepard, a senior u.s. of...

Before the show that the launch took place. we have the footage. heres footage of the test just released by pyongyang state television. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> okay. the real story now at 37 past the hour. weather conditions are expected o keep north korea from carrying out a long-range rocket launch today. the reclusive government has been preparing to shoot a satellite into orbit for the last several days, but officials in washington say the task is really meant to try out missile technol...

Air that the launch has indeed failed. >> so senior u.s. officials are now confirmed to nbc news that this rocket launch has failed. all indication social security that it has failed thats what one official is saying. theyre still looking into it, as soon as that occurs well be hearing from the white house. two u.s. officials confirming or saying that the rocket broke up as soon as it took off. but like you were saying, andrea, were waiting for official word and when that occurs well get word fr...

The outer islands of japan, maybe a failure in the first or second stage, which would mean that this rocket might not have done as well as the 2009 lift-of, the last time actually made it to the third stage. again we are extrapolating here. what i can tell is you north korea is still mum. they have the biggest story that they have had on their hands and biggest media corps and they are not say ig anything at this moment. >> shepard: greg palkot inside pyongyang. we will go back to him as news wa...

The security council and take back food aid. we have richard engel there and were trying to get him on the phone, but once again, north korea has gone ahead with the long-range rocket launch. it took place around 7:39 local time. also waiting for word from the white house, theyre expected to release a statement working to get richard engel again on the phone. hillary clinton has been warning north korea that the united nations security council would take action if they went ahead with this rocke...

The past that why would the administration think that this deal would be any different. of course, there is a new leader right now in north korea, kim jong-un. very little is known about this leader. we asked the president of south korea if he could shed any light on this new leader who is quite young, thought to be in his 20s and even president lee said that he didnt know much even though they are neighbors. so theres not a lot that is known but the u.s. was certainly quite hopeful that this ne...

ballistic missile test in the works. we begin tonight with high anxiety over north koreas threat to launch a satellite, a launch pentagon officials believe is to test a ballistic missile capable of launching a nuclear warhead capable of sitting the main land. weather is such that officials believe the launch could come at any time. lets take a closer look at what they are worried about. this is north korea. i want to show you new satellite images from april 9th. a clear image of the ...