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Saturday, December 08, 2012

Rocket launch aims to send message that N. Korea is nuclear power: Seoul gov't

Launch pad in Dongchang-ri |North Korea's planned long-range rocket launch is aimed at sending the message that the reclusive communist country is a nuclear power, Seoul's Ministry of Unification said Saturday.

The ministry said Pyongyang had revised its Constitution earlier in the year to blatantly point out that it is a country armed with nuclear weapons.

It added that while the North claims that the three stage space delivery vehicle is designed to send a satellite into low orbit around the Earth, if the launch is successful, the country will probably redouble its claims that it is a nuclear power.

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