North Korea confirms rocket's flight path
2,422 views · Published 5 January 2013 · 0:56 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: News Direct · 2013 · News & Politics
North Korea confirmed this weekend that it plans to launch a three-stage rocket between Dec. 10 and Dec. 22. Pyongyang has notified its neighbors of the proposed flight path, which will see the first stage land in the Yellow Sea, near South Korea, and the second stage fall into the Pacific east of the Philippines. North Korea says it will use the rocket to launch a satellite, but experts believe the launch will be used to test a long range rocket designed to help the North achieve its long term aim of a missile delivery system for a nuclear warhead. The rocket is likely the same type of Unha-3 rocket that North Korea launched in a failed test last April. It rocket is thought to have a design range of more than 6,700km, which means it could in theory hit parts of the US, including Alaska. North Korea plans to launch the rocket from its Sohae launch station, close to the border with China. The launch will take place around the same time as South Korea's Dec. 19 presidential elections and the official Dec. 17 anniversary of former North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il's death.
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