North Korea begins fueling rocket says report
(MENAFN- Asia Times) A man watches a news report on North Korea’s planned rocket launch at a railway station in Seoul
Pyongyang has announced it will launch a satellite-bearing rocket sometime between Feb. 8 and Feb. 25 which is around the time of the birthday on February 16 of late leader Kim Jong-Il father of current leaderKim Jong-Un. North Korea “will finish preparations for the launch as soon as the next several days” the unidentified US defense department official told the Asahi Shimbun. Since Thursday satellite images have shown increased movement of people and equipment around the launch pad and a fuel storehouse at North Korea’s Sohae satellite launch complex in the country’s northwest the official said according to the Washington-datelined report. The United States judged that fueling appears to have started as it has been monitoring Pyongyang’s movements via military intelligence satellites which can analyze objects as small as 30 centimeters (12 inches) the official was quoted as saying. Given the difficulty in stopping the process once fueling begins preparation work normally finishes within several days of that the official told the Asahi. Read More
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