PYONGYANG – North Korea’s failed rocket launch has dealt a severe blow to the country’s new regime, which hoped it would mark the start of a new chapter under recently appointed leader Kim Jong Un.
The failure severely dented North Korea’s pride ahead of the centennial Sunday of state founder Kim Il Sung’s birth, especially as the isolated country was seeking to use the rocket as a show of strength and a demonstration of its technological progress.
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