North Korean rocket launch condemned

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Published time: December 12, 2012 01:37
Edited time: December 12, 2012 23:34

The North Korean Unha-3 rocket is pictured at Tangachai -ri space center on April 8, 2012 (AFP Photo / Pedro Ugarte )

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North Korea launched a long-range rocket Wednesday morning despite international opposition and growing tensions in the region. UN has condemned the successful launch in a statement.

Pyongyang claimed the Unha-3 rocket successfully delivered a scientific satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 into orbit.

The UN Security Council has condemned North Korea’s rocket launch in a short statement following an emergency meeting, saying that “an appropriate response” is now being considered.

North Korea will face “consequences” for the launch, a US spokesman warned. The White House called the rocket launch a “highly provocative act that threatens regional security” earlier this Wednesday.

Seoul has strongly condemned the launch as a violation of UN resolutions, with the South Korean president calling for an emergency meeting over the issue. The launch was confirmed by officials at the South Korean Defense Ministry and its Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"Shortly after liftoff, the Aegis radar system in the Yellow Sea detected the move," a senior South Korean military official said, Yonhap news agency reports.

A man watches a TV screen broadcasting news on North Korea's rocket launch, at a railway station in Seoul on December 12, 2012. (AFP Photo / Jung Yeon-Je)

North Korea said the Unha-3 rocket delivered the satellite into orbit as planned.

"The second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 successfully lifted off from the Sohae Space Center by carrier rocket Unha-3 on Wednesday," the official Korean Central News Agency said. "The satellite entered its preset orbit."

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) reported that the North Korean missile deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit, which would fall in line with Pyongyang’s claims about the nature of the launch.

However critics believe this could be a ballistic missile test, which the UN has banned North Korea from conducting.

The debris of the rocket fell into waters off the Philippines at 10:05 a.m. local time after passing over Okinawa, the Japanese government said, according to Yonhap. An official in Seoul told the news agency that the first stage of the North Korean rocket fell in the Yellow Sea.

The launch is the means for North Korea to prove they’re not lagging behind in terms of technology, Eric Sirotkin, lawyer and peacemaker, told RT.

“They believe in their sovereignty and speak about it all the time and consequently they felt that the launch of this missile, if you will, or the satellite was an effort to show that they are highly sophisticated technical nation.”

A Japanese government spokesman protested the launch but urged the Japanese people to go on with their lives as normal. Japan did not activate its PAC-3 missile defense system in response.

A worker (C) of one of Japan's major newspapers hands out extra editions reporting a rocket launch by North Korea, on a street in downtown Tokyo on December 12, 2012. (AFP Photo / Kazuhiro Nogi)

Hours after the launch, Chinese state media urged an early resumption of the six-nation talks aimed at resolving the conflict over North Korea's nuclear program.

The US branded the launch a “highly provocative act that threatens regional security.”

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "deplores the rocket launch," his spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has voiced “deep regret” over the missile launch, saying that North Korea’s move will “have a negative impact” on the geopolitical situation in the region.

The move comes as a surprise as Pyongyang announced Monday it was extending its launch period for the rocket test by one week to Dec. 29.

Earlier, the US Navy had sent two additional warships to North Korea to track and prepare for a possible North Korean rocket launch, bringing the total number of warships surrounding the Communist state to four.

The United States and the United Nations have expressed concern that North Korea may be testing its missile technology to see if it could be used to eventually strike the US. This is Pyongyang’s second attempt at such a launch this year. The South Korean government estimates that Pyongyang spent some $1.3 billion over the year to conduct the two tests.

“I am afraid that the United States is going to step back, talk less, isolate more… And it is really necessary that we not overreact to this launching of a satellite, but that we say this is a cause and a reason to sit down finally and put an end to this war,” lawyer and peacemaker Sirotkin pointed out.

Travellers watch a TV screen broadcasting news about North Korea's rocket launch, at a railway station in Seoul on December 12, 2012. (AFP Photo / Jung Yeon-Je)

Comments (181)

Swordfish (unregistered) 13.12.2012 15:47

There is someone writing here who calls itself "Agent Provocateur" and who is a lying Zionist Tart.

i believe this tiresome liar is who calls itself also "AmericanInRomania"; the Web, and especially Russian news websites are hounded with Mossad Trolls everywhere: in the Bible it says the Devil is a liar and a murderer, and that should be the motto of Mossad - "Lying And Murdering For Illegal Non-State Is-ra-el".

My foster mothers' little sister went to USA in 1968 and married Vietnam war veteran (a very simple, poorly educated guy, but in spite of that had the guts to admit that what the Americans did to the Vietnamese was intolerably evil, and that the colossal Jew-owned American military forces were humiliatingly defeated by the tiny population of North Vietnamese people who ALL fought, just like the Russians against the Nazi's.

Not a single nation in Europe had the guts to stand up against the Nazi's (Zionist pigs, do not try the old lie that Britain "stood up", because for a start they "stood up" against what??? They were never attacked apart from a few V1 and V2 bombs.

Who in all Europe dared to fight the Nazi hordes. RUSSIA!!!

Who se Soldaten in all Europe had the guts to face the Nazi Soldaten and utterly destroy them???

Russi an Soldaten!!!

R ussian Soldaten freed the Jews from the Nazi concentration camps but the only "thanks" the Russians got for doing it was a "Jihad" by the Jews against Russia for doing it, as the Jews perceived Russian compassion as weakness, and the Jews automatically saw the Russian compassion as being an "open door" of opportunity in Russia for Jew greed and political manipulation.

Mighty Russian Bear: never let the eyes go off your back, be always vigilant.
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Swordfish (unregistered) 13.12.2012 15:11

Zionist USA always was bragging is "wealthiest nation on planet" and it is true that the Jews always have owned most of the worlds money and are owning more and more of it. In 2008 they swindled forty-seven-trillion dollars more with their Goldman Sachs Mortgage-Debt-Securi ty scam, which would have literally destroyed utterly the Russian economy if it was not for the fact that Russia has got Russian Government State Bank and nearly all Russians bank with Russian State Bank. This is the Bank that saved Russia and the Russian people from ending up like Greece and Spain where the people are starving and rioting in the streets.

But as for the USA goyim??? Countless millions of them rot and starve and brutally die from disease and violence in the immense Jew-owned ghettos that surround every American city and town; millions more American goyim starve to death in the streets. Fifty percent of American goyim adults (above age fifteen) are illiterate, their parants unable to afford to pay for them to go to high school (in Jew America the goyim Working-Class has to pay for everything, their taxes get them nothing, not educational access and no medical care of even the most rudimentary level either; but in the USA Jews get free education to the highest university level and free housing and medical care while Americans starve to death in the street!!!) and the taxes of the American goyim pay for weapons for the Jews - weapons that the Jews often sell to vassal states such as Muslim Turkey and Saudi-Arabia!!!

How many Egyptians have been murdered by the police and army only to end up with a Zionist-owned dictatorship again???

The entire Jewish "government", the Rothschilds, and Kissinger should be hung by the neck, just like they did to Saddam (we will leave the torture of these evil scum to the Devil) and as for their faithful goyim vassals such as Blair (who got a "peace medal" from the Zionists!!!) and Hague (the evil creature who wants to murder President Assad of Syria) and Clinton (the mad harridon has got so much blood on her loathesome hands she now needs a bucket to carry the blood she is responsible for), and the rest of these vermin:

To the Devil with them!!!

Peopl es' Democratic Republic Of North Korea: Salyut!!! Salyut!!! Salyut!!! Heroic, Gloriously Brave Nation.

Thank you for daring to stand up to, and spit in the face of the colossal Zionist bully USA.

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Man on the street 13.12.2012 15:01

A simple question: does N Korea have a military base on America's borders or the other way around?
Christian ity says let who with no sins cast the first stone. How many rocket did the US tested?

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