N.Korean Leader Wants More Rocket Launches

   In this photo taken and released on December 12, 2012, the Unha-3 rocket, shown on a monitor screen at an unknown location, being fired at a launch site on the west coast, in the village of Tongchang-ri, about 56 kilometers from the Chinese border city of Dandong.

   Seoul, South Korea - North Korea's leader has ordered more satellite launches, state media said Friday, two days after Pyongyang's long-range rocket launch triggered global outrage and UN condemnation.

   Kim Jong-Un, who oversaw Wednesday's launch, said its success underscored the need for “to develop the country's science, technology and economy”, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

   Kim had issued the final written order for the rocket launch on Wednesday morning and “keenly observed” the whole process, said KCNA.

   By placing a satellite in orbit North Korea had “further consolidated the status of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) as a space power and demonstrated that the country has reached the highest level in terms of cutting-edge science and technology”, it reported Kim as saying.

   The launch “showed at home and abroad the unshakable stand... to exercise the country's legitimate right to use space for peaceful purposes”, Kim said, according to KCNA.

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Received from Irina Malenko