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BEHIND THE NEWS North Korea went ahead with the launch in defiance of world opinion, which saw it as a none too plausibly disguised test of a ballistic missile meant to deliver a nuclear weapon.

The US and others believe that the failed launch, in defiance of international pressure, was a covert military exercise as the rocket used– the Taepodong-2 – is equally capable of carrying warheads.

In April, when the new Kim regime conducted a failed rocket launch in defiance of international opposition, the UN Security Council issued a "presidential statement" condemning the action, strengthening sanctions on the regime and warning of further measures if another launch were conducted.

And this week, it again conducted a launch in defiance of such criticisms.

The comments come amid widespread speculation North Korea is poised for a missile launch in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.

Today's attacks, the first on Abuja and launched in defiance of tight security surrounding the celebrations marking Nigeria's independence from the UK, are the militants' boldest yet.

Under Mr. Kim — a grandson of Kim Il-sung, the country's cultlike revolutionary founder — North Korea has conducted a nuclear test and rocket launching in defiance of international sanctions; threatened the United States, South Korea and Japan with nuclear attack; and restarted a mothballed nuclear reactor that could provide fuel for bombs.

The News of the World was bought in 1969; the Sun overtook the Mirror in sales in 1978; the secret talks with Margaret Thatcher paved the way for the 1981 purchase of the Times; Sky was launched in defiance of the regulators in 1989 and, after a brush with bankruptcy, began the long haul to become Britain's largest commercial broadcaster.

North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests and a series of missile launches, in defiance of U.N. sanctions, and is believed by experts and government officials to be working to develop nuclear-warhead missiles that could reach the United States.

Despite Pyongyang's successful rocket launch last week in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, Lee's successor and colleague in the Saenuri Party, Park, has promised to allow humanitarian aid to the North and to try to meet its young leader Kim Jong-un, who is less than half her age.

Flynn said on Wednesday that the missile launch was in defiance of the 2015 Security Council resolution.