South Korean and US military officials
confirmed Sunday that North Korea had moved the main part of a long-range
rocket to a launch site north of Pyongyang.
“We
understand that North Korea has moved the main body to Dongchang-ri and is
preparing for the launch inside a building,” an official of the Joint Chief of
Staff office was quoted as saying.
Earlier
in the day Japan’s Fuji Television reported a train took the main body to the
launch facility in Dongchang-ri, Cholsan County, North Pyongan Province,
Saturday, Fuji Television said citing informed sources.
North
Korea has said it will launch the rocket to put an observation satellite into
orbit between April 12 and 16 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the
birth of its founding father Kim Il-sung, which falls on April 15.
Kim
Il-sung is the father of Kim Jong-il, the late North Korean leader who died of
heart attack in December. Kim Jong-il's son, Jong-un, has taken over in the
unprecedented third-generation power transition in any communist state.
South
Korea and the United States have called on the North to refrain from the
planned rocket launch, seeing it as a disguised ballistic missile test.
The
North's move comes as US President Barack Obama and scores of other global
leaders are flocking to Seoul to attend the second Nuclear Security Summit.
Washington
has said it will not provide food aid to Pyongyang if the North proceeds with
the rocket launch, although the US agreed in February to ship 240,000 tonnes of
food to the impoverished North in return for the North's moratorium on missile
and nuclear tests and freeze of uranium enrichment.
North
Korea has been under UN sanctions imposed in 2009 after Pyongyang's nuclear and
long-range rocket tests.
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