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North Korea says rocket launch imminent
Sat Apr 4, 2009 3:38am EDT
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will soon launch a long-range rocket after completing preparations to put a satellite into space, its official media said on Saturday, defying international calls to scrap the plan.
"The satellite will be launched soon," the KCNA news agency said in a report monitored in Seoul.
Japan withdrew an announcement that North Korea had appeared to have launched the rocket. The prime minister's office said its announcement had been a mistake.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the international community would take action if North Korea went ahead with the launch to show Pyongyang it could not act with impunity.
"We will work with all interested partners in the international community to take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that they cannot threaten the safety and stability of other countries with impunity," Obama said.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak convened a meeting of his top security officials in the basement bunker at the presidential Blue House, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
Saturday is the first day in the April 4-8 timeframe the secretive North, which tested a nuclear device in 2006, has set for what it calls a satellite launch. Pyongyang has said it will come between the hours of 10 p.m. EDT and 3 a.m. EDT.
The United States, South Korea and Japan say the launch is a disguised test of the Taepodong-2 missile designed to carry a warhead capable of reaching Alaska.
In its only previous test flight, in July 2006, the missile blew apart about 40 seconds after launch.
Analysts said the launch may help North Korean leader Kim Jong-il shore up support after a suspected stroke in August raised questions of his grip on power and bolster his hand in using military threats to win concessions from global powers.
With an estimated range of 6,700 km (4,200 miles), the rocket being prepared is supposed to fly over Japan, dropping boosters to its west and east on a path that runs southwest of Hawaii.
North Korea had set up equipment to monitor the launch, the Yonhap quoted a South Korean official as saying.
"Looking from the completion of fuelling and the setting up of monitoring cameras, the possibility of a launch within a few hours is very high," the official was quoted as saying.
Japan's Yomiuri newspaper said North Korea had deployed surveillance ships in the Sea of Japan, where the rocket's first booster stage is supposed to splash down.
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