North Korea Unveils New Rocket Launch Plan

North Korea says it is to launch a long-range rocket later this month.

The launch, planned for between between December 10 and December 22, will heighten already strained tensions with South Korea ahead of its presidential election on December 19.

North Korea tried in April to launch a long-range rocket but it broke apart shortly after lift off.

The North's Korean Committee for Space Technology said that it had looked at the mistakes made in the April launch and had improved the rocket.

"Scientists and technicians of the DPRK analysed the mistakes that were made during the previous April launch and deepened the work of improving the reliability and precision of the satellite and carrier rocket, thereby rounding off the preparations for launch," it said.
                 
The rocket was intended to put a polar-orbiting earth observation satellite into orbit, it said.
                 
In April, North Korea failed with a much-hyped launch of an Unha-3 rocket that Pyongyang also said was aimed at placing a satellite in orbit.
                 
The US and United Nations insisted it was a disguised ballistic missile test using a three-stage variant of the Taepodong-2 inter-continental ballistic missile.
                 
The April test put a halt to the latest international effort to engage with North Korea, with the US calling off plans to deliver badly needed food assistance.
                 
The UN Security Council has warned North Korea against carrying out another launch bid after intense speculation that it was preparing for a new missile test.
                 
"We all agree it would be extremely inadvisable to proceed with the test," the head of the North Korea sanctions committee at the council, Portuguese ambassador Jose Filipe Moraes Cabral said.

 

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