While the North Korean government claimed that the launch was successful, no objects were ever tracked in orbit from the launch, and outside North Korea it is considered to have been a failure.
Sementara pemerintah Korea Utara menyatakan bahwa peluncuran itu berhasil, ada benda yang pernah dilacak di orbit dari peluncuran, dan di luar Korea Utara itu dianggap telah gagal.