The Latest on North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket (all times local):10:30 a.m. South Korea's Yonhap news agency is reporting that North Korea's rocket launch may have failed. The agency provided no other details in a short dispatch. The South's Defense Ministry says it cannot immediately confirm the report. North Korea successfully put a satellite into orbit in its last launch, in December 2012. But before that Pyongyang suffered a series of failures.10:10 a.m. Japanese Prime Minister Sh

The United States is tracking a North Korean long-range rocket, but it does not pose a threat to the U.S. or its allies, a Defense Department official said Saturday."We are tracking it. It does not pose a danger to the U.S. or allies. We will provide an update soon," the Pentagon official told Yonhap News Agency by phone on the condition of anonymity.The North fired the rocket from its northwest Dongchang-ri launch site at 9:30 a.m. (Korean time), one month after its fourth nuclear test, sending

North Korea informed a U.N.maritime agency Saturday that it will move up its plan to launch a long-range rocket to between Feb. 7 and 14, the Seoul government said.South Korea said it is already on full alert for the launch that could take place as early as Sunday, noting that the country's military maintains an immediate response posture.Earlier, Pyongyang informed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and other United Nations agencies of its plan that the launch would take place betwee

More than 20 South Koreans were detained in Cambodia for allegedly opening an online gambling Web site, an official said Friday.Cambodia informed the South Korean embassy about the arrest of the 22 South Koreans, the foreign ministry official said.Police arrested the suspects and confiscated computers and other equipment when they raided two villas in the northwestern outskirts of Phnom Penh, according to local media reports.The South Korean embassy dispatched its diplomat to the area to provide

A right-wing South Korean journalist insisted on Friday that South Korea and Japan push for their own nuclear armament for protection from North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.In a contribution to the conservative Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun, Cho Gab-je said that the two countries should be nuclear-armed for legitimate self-defense as long as a neighboring enemy is armed with atomic bombs. Cho, former president of Monthly Chosun, said nuclear armament is a very natural option for the sove