02-02-2016 17:27 via uk.news.yahoo.com

North Korea tells U.N. agencies it plans satellite launch

By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea notified U.N. agencies on Tuesday that it plans to launch a satellite later this month, which could advance the isolated country's development of long-range missile technology. Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 in defiance of United Nations sanctions, and last launched a long-range rocket in December 2012, sending an object it described as a communications satellite into orbit. North Korea is under U.N. sanctions fo
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