North Korea’s international radio broadcaster, the Voice of Korea, carried two items in English on Wednesday announcing the rocket launch.

The first led the news bulletin and was just over two minutes long:

[audio:https://www.northkoreatech.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121212-vok-launch_01.mp3]

The second, announced over a musical bed, was about 3 minutes long and came at the end of the hour-long broadcast:

[audio:https://www.northkoreatech.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121212-vok-launch-2_01.mp3]

Both recordings were from Voice of Korea’s 1500GMT broadcast received via shortwave on 9335kHz.