Missile launch by North Korea imminent

July 7th, 2009 Obama says war with North Korea not imminentMOSCOW — President Barack Obama says he doesn't think any war "is imminent" with North Korea. Speaking in a network interview while meeting with Russian leaders, Obama was asked how precarious is the security situation in the wake of North Korea's nuclear tests and new sanctions as a result of them.

July 5th, 2009 Recent developments suggests that defying US, North Korea has fired 7 ballistic missiles off its eastern coast on Saturday, thus violating UN resolutions. The mounting tension between the two nation, US and North Korea resurfaced as the latter test-fired three short-mid ranged missiles as a mark of protest against the UN sanctions which were imposed on the nation.

June 8th, 2009 Report: NKorean launch does not appear imminentSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is stepping up preparations to test-fire a long-range missile from its new launching site near China, but a launch does not appear imminent, a news report said Monday. North Korea has reportedly been assembling an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S.

June 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - An intercontinental missile has been brought to an assembly hall at a new launch site on North Korea's northwest coast, a South Korean newspaper reported Wednesday. The missile appeared to be a longer version of the Taepodong 2 rocket that North Korea was believed to have fired April 5, an informed source told the JoongAng Ilbo.

May 25th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea appears to have test-fired one short-range missile Monday after it conducted a second nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said. The 130 km-range missile was fired from its Musudanri missile base in Southern Hamkyung province, Yonhap said.

April 5th, 2009 TOKYO - North Korea launched a rocket Sunday, a South Korean foreign ministry official told Yonhap news agency. Pyongyang said it was putting a communications satellite into orbit, but Japan, South Korea and Washington believe the launch was a screen to test a long-range ballistic missile.

April 4th, 2009 SEOUL - Weather conditions on Saturday have reportedly prevented North Korea from going ahead with the launch of its missile on Saturday. "We thought the launch was likely today, but weather conditions at the (North Korea) rocket base may not have been favourable," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a presidential Blue House official as saying.orth Korea said Saturday preparations for the launch were complete and liftoff was imminent, as U.S., Japanese and South Korean warships with radar plied waters near the communist nation to monitor what they fear is a long-range missile test.

April 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea has begun final preparations for its controversial long-range rocket launch and could fire the weapon as early as Saturday, South Korean media reported Friday. 'North Korea seems to have almost finished fuelling the rocket, so it is highly likely it will launch it,' The Korea Times quoted an anonymous government official as saying.

March 26th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has warned North Korea there would be consequences if the Stalinist state went ahead with a planned long-range missile launch. Speaking at the sidelines of her visit to Mexico, Clinton said Wednesday that a launch would be regarded a 'provocative act' that would not go unnoticed.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - North Korea is loading a Taepodong rocket onto a launch pad ahead of what Pyongyang says is a plan to place a satellite into space, a US official confirmed Wednesday. 'It is out there,' the counter-proliferation official said.

March 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - An American military commander for the Pacific region has said that there is a high probability that the US could knock down a North Korean missile aimed at the United States. Navy Admiral Timothy J.

March 21st, 2009 TOKYO - North Korea will launch a rocket April 4 to deliver a communications satellite into orbit, a media report said Friday. The communist state earlier announced plans to launch a communications satellite between April 4 and 8.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Washington has a range of options available to it to respond to North Korea should it proceed with a "provocative" long-range ballistic missile launch. A Fox News report quoted Clinton as telling reporters here: "We will discuss a response if we are not successful in convincing them not to go forward with what is a very provocative act." "There are a range of options available to take action against the North Koreans in the wake of a missile launch if they pursue that," she added.

February 27th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea has begun to test radar and other equipment in preparation for launching what it claims to be a satellite, South Korean media reports said Friday. Increased activity was reported from the Musudan-ri missile launch site in the north-east of the communist state as North Korea moves closer to what South Korea claims is an attempt to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile.

February 24th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Tuesday that it was preparing to launch a satellite on a domestically produced rocket after weeks of intelligence reports that said it was instead readying a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. A date for the launch was not given in the statement by the Korea Space Technology Committee published by the official Korean Central News Agency.