North Korea celebrates rocket launch

North Koreans gather near portraits of the late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il during a mass rally organized to celebrate the success of a rocket launch that sent a satellite into space, on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012.

Wednesday's rocket launch came just eight months after a similar attempt ended in an embarrassing public failure, and just under a year after Kim Jong Un inherited power following his father's death.

Credit: AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin