N. Korea launches rocket

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Ishigaki Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama (L back) and Self-Defense Forces members look at the monitor of the central government's J-Alert missile warning system in the city hall on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 12, 2012. North Korea launched a rocket, part of which flew over the island prefecture in southwestern Japan. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch was a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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