North Korea Acknowledges Rocket Launch Failure
On Tuesday, Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said the launch of a rocket would hinder the promised aid.
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"It's impossible to imagine that we would be able to follow through [and] provide the nutritional assistance that we had planned on providing, given what would be a flagrant violation of North Korea's basic international obligations," Carney said.
The rocket launch is the first under Kim Jong Un. The regime's leader, who is believed to be 29 years old, assumed party leadership in January of this year, weeks after the death of his father.
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