Article updated: 12/12/2012 9:49 PM

N. Korea hails launch despite risk of consequences

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South Koreans at a Seoul railway station watch a TV news account of the launch of a North Korean rocket Wednesday.

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North Korea, though struggling to feed its people, is now one of the few countries to have successfully launched a satellite into space from its own soil. But leaders in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo immediately pushed for consequences over a rocket launch widely seen as a test that takes the country one step closer to being capable of lobbing nuclear bombs over the Pacific.