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Events leading up to Friday's failed rocket launch

Created by jto on 13/04/2012

Last updated: 13/04/12 at 23:38

Tags: DPRK NK missile rocket launch Japan "North Korea"

• Rocket fired, launch fails
  13 Apr 2012

  North Korea launched the missile at 7:39 am, but it broke apart over the ocean within minutes .
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120413x1.html

• NK announces rocket launch
  Mar 2012

  Says they will launch a rocket with a satellite between April 12 and 16.

• Japanese SDF prepares
  Mar 2012

  The Japanese government orders the Self-Defense Forces to intercept the North Korean rocket if its fragments are likely to fall within Japanese territory.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120331a4.html

• NK declares nuclear moratorium
  29 Feb 2012

  North Korea announces a moratorium on nuclear testing, long-range missile launches and uranium enrichment in return for US food aid.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ed20120304a1.html

• Kim Jong Il dies
  Dec 2011

  Kim Jong Un is named supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111220a1.html

• North Korean attacks South Korean island
  Nov 2010

  Four dead in artillery attack.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20101124a1.html

• Kim Jong Un named vice chairman
  Sep 2010

  The third and youngest of Kim Jong Il's sons, Kim Jong Un, is named vice chairman of the party's Central Military Commission, joining the party leadership and becoming his father's successor.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ed20101013a2.html

• South Korean warship sinks
  Mar 2010

  A South Korean warship sinks in the Yellow Sea, allegedly due to a North Korean torpedo attack; 46 are killed. North Korea denies involvement. US and Japan agree to back Seoul.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20100521a1.html

• NK's second nuclear test
  May 2009

  Japan's Lower House condemns the test, calls for stronger sanctions.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20090527a3.html

• North Korea launches a rocket
  Apr 2009

  Purported satellite flies over Tohoku; US says no object enters orbit.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20090406a1.html

• SDF gets intercept order
  28 Mar 2009

  Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada orders the Self-Defense Forces to shoot down any part of a North Korean rocket that might fall toward Japanese territory.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20090328a1.html

• UN Security Council bans NK's missile and nuclear activity
  Oct 2006

• NK claims nuclear test
  Oct 2006

  Neighbors say the underground tests represent a threat to the region.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20061010a5.html

• UN Security Council resolution demands NK suspend missile program
  Jul 2006

• NK launches 7 missiles
  Jul 2006

  North Korea test-fired seven ballistic missiles, including a Taepodong-2, a model that is believed to put the U.S. mainland within its reach.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20060711a1.html

• North Korea declares it has nuclear weapons
  Feb 2005

• UN Security Council imposes sanctions on NK
  Jun 2004

• First round of six-party talks in Beijing
  Aug 2003

• North Korea withdraws from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
  Jan 2003

• NK fires Taepodong-1 over Japan
  Aug 1998

• North Korea test fires a Rodong missile into the Sea of Japan
  1 May 1993

  Years later, US sources said the medium-range missile may have flown over Japan.
  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn19981023a8.html