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North Korea fires long-range rocket from

North Korea provoked the international community: Despite insistent warnings, the Communist country is a long-range rocket – ostensibly to a satellite to carry. South Korea is considering the consequences.

Despite massive international criticism, North Korea’s successful launch of a space rocket announced. This was at about 01.30 CET withdrawn, said the South Korean Ministry of defense.

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The Japanese broadcaster NHK reported also from the Start. The rocket was on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa in the direction of the Pacific ocean flown. Japan’s military did not try to intercept it. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, exercised sharp criticism, and said it was a violation of UN resolutions. Japan maintains no diplomatic relations with North Korea.

North Korean state media gave, citing the national space Agency, the launcher have an earth observation satellite on an orbit. North Korea had the missile forward, originally the country had a start window between 8. and 25. February provided.

The fear of nuclear warheads

A number of States criticized the launch as a disguised Test of a military long-range rocket. There is the fear that North Korea such a missile with a nuclear warhead equipping could, and so to be able to, in addition to South Korea and Japan, possibly also the West coast of the USA to attack.

Seoul checks stationing of anti-missile defense system

South Korea is considering in view of the threat, the U.S. anti-missile defense system Thaad to station. His country will be about that with the U.S. government to negotiate, announced a high-ranking representative of the defense Ministry in the presence of the commanders of the US army to journalists in Seoul.

South Korea’s President Park Geun Hye threw the Communist Regime in Pyongyang is a grave provocation that will not be tolerated and may. US Secretary of state John Kerry denounced the rocket launch as a threat to the security of the Region and the United States. He underlined that the US is the defense of its allies, including South Korea and Japan, “eisenhart” were obliged. At the request of South Korea, the USA and Japan comes as the UN security Council in New York this Sunday to an emergency meeting together.

Even China and Russia who criticize

Critique was also in China, a traditionally close ally of North Korea. The launch of the rocket will be the tensions on the Korean Peninsula only aggravate, decried the Chinese government. Similar sounds there was from Moscow. “We are forced to determine that North Korea is Once again international law a provocative, has ignored,” it said in a statement the Russian foreign Ministry.

If you believe dictator Kim Jong Un, the rocket is only one earth observation satellite into space to bring

The leadership in Pyongyang argues, however, have it as a sovereign state the right to a space program to pursue. Several UN security Council resolutions banning the country to use ballistic missiles.

North Korea is in possession of the hydrogen bomb?

On 6. January had North Korea, the ignition of a hydrogen bomb, announcing and worldwide outrage caused. The fourth Atomwaffentest North Korea since the year of 2006 was the United Nations security Council strongly condemned. Atomexperten and the US government doubt, however, that it is indeed a hydrogen bomb was. The Explosion was not strong enough.

haz/se (rtr, dpa, afp)