North Korea defies UN-sanctions, launches long-range rocket reportedly carrying a satellite

#northkorea #rocketlaunch Ignoring warnings from the international community, North Korea has launched a long-range rocket which is believed to be carrying a satellite. This has been informed by defense ministry of South Korea. This action by north Korea is in defiance of United Nations sanctions.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 7 February 2016.

The US Strategic Command has indicated that it had detected what it called a missile entering space - this would appear to quash earlier media reports that it might have failed during flight. The rocket had been launched in a southward trajectory and Japan's Fuji Television Network showed a streak of light heading into the sky. This image had been taken from a camera at China's border with North Korea.
North Korea has been barred under UN sanctions from using ballistic missile technology. But, it had notified UN agencies that it planned to launch a rocket carrying an Earth observation satellite. This led to opposition from governments who interpret it as a long-range missile test. The UN Security Council was likely to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the developments.
Incidentally, North Korea had given a February 8-25 time frame for the launch but changed it to February 7-14. The United States was tracking the rocket launch and, in its opinion, it did not believe that it posed a threat to the United States or its allies.
North Korea is isolated in the world and insists that it has a sovereign right to pursue a space program. It last launched a long-range rocket in December 2012 to send into orbit an object which it had described as a communications satellite.


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