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Pyongyang has said it will launch a communications satellite between April 4 - 8, but regional powers believe the real purpose is to test a long-range missile, the Taepodong-2, which is believed to be already in place on its launch pad. "I have issued an order ... to prepare to destroy any object that might fall on Japan as a result of an accident involving a flying object from North Korea," Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters after a meeting of Japan's Security Council. North Korea has said any attempt to shoot down the rocket itself would be an act of war. Hamada reiterated Japan's call for the reclusive state to cancel the launch and said Tokyo would do everything it could to protect the Japanese people. But he stressed that Japan would only act if the object threatened to fall on its territory. In its only previous test flight in 2006, the Taepodong-2 either blew up or self-destructed after failing just 40 seconds into launch. CHANCES OF FALLOUT ARE "SLIM" Japanese government officials say the chances of debris falling on its territory were slim and have called on the public not to panic. Top nuclear envoys from Japan, South Korea and the United States were to meet in Washington on Friday in a signal of growing concern over the launch, the first big test for U.S. President Barack Obama in dealing with the prickly North. Japan and the United States have warned the test will violate U.N. resolutions imposed on Pyongyang. Japan's constitution does not allow the military to intercept a missile if it is clearly heading elsewhere, but Tokyo would try to shoot down a missile aimed at Japanese territory or intercept any debris. North Korea has given international agencies notice that the rocket's planned trajectory should take it over Japan, dropping booster stages to its east and west. Japan is expected to move ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors to northern Japan, which lies under the rocket's trajectory, and deploy two Aegis-equipped destroyers with Standard Missile-3 interceptors to the Sea of Japan. Washington has said it could with "high probability" intercept any North Korean missile heading for U.S. territory if ordered to do so. SERIOUS CHALLENMGE TO REGIONAL SECURITY Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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