I think it was just in the past two days that NK said they were going to fire it, and Japan said it was going to shoot it down if they did (and the assumption is that it would be in/over Japan’s territorial waters).
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(URGENT) N. Korea’s rocket launch seen as failure: Seoul
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/02/07/0200000000AEN20160207001700315.html