South Korea recovers piece from North Korea's failed spy satellite rocket launch: 'serious defects'
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South Korea's Defense Ministry said its military salvaged a white, metal cylinder that is believed to be part of the crashed North Korean rocket, which failed to launch.
North Korea’s attempt to launch a spy satellite into space, which would be the country’s first, failed Wednesday after the rocket plunged into waters approximately 124 miles west of the southwestern island of Eocheongdo. The country’s space agency attributed the failure to "the low reliability and stability of the new-type engine system applied to (the) carrier rocket" and "the unstable character of the fuel," according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
The North’s National Aerospace Development Administration will conduct a more thorough investigation into "serious defects revealed" by the launch, according to KCNA.