Jim Walsh: N Korea's rocket launch for internal purposes

Al Jazeera English 2012-08-31

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Jim Walsh, an international security expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the launch was aimed at cementing the position of the country's new leader, Kim Jong-un.
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