N. Korea: Condemned for Rocket Test

Don't try this at home. South Korea, the U.S., Japan, and foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations including Russia all united Friday in condemnation of North Korea's embarrassing failed rocket launch that broke up and fell harmlessly into the sea Thursday. North Korea had defied international warnings to conduct the test of a rocket, but the satellite launch "failed to enter its preset orbit," state-run news media said after hours of silence. Scientists and technicians were “looking into the cause of the failure,” the statement read. Read it at The New York Times