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North Korea has announced on Tuesday the launch of a new Earth observation satellite in the coming days, amid condamnations from Japan and South Korea, according to CNN.
People watch the news at a Seoul train station as North Korea fires a long-range ballistic missile, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace. IMAGES
The US envoy to the United Nations says North Korea's barrage of missile tests made a mockery of the Security Council in veiled criticism of China and Russia. "These members have bent over backwards to justify the DPRK's repeated violations, and in turn they have enabled the DPRK and made a mockery of this council," Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells a Security Council session, using the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. SOUNDBITE
North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying a "large, heavy nuclear warhead" that can survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, its official news agency says. IMAGES
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday morning carrying what Pyongyang says is satellite Kwangmyongsong-4 — named after the late leader Kim Jong II. Its launch caused North Korea’s neighbors and the United States to release a flurry of condemnations. Many see it as a disguised ballistic missile test.
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