Seoul - Worldwide horror at the "successful satellite launch," the North Koreans. Early on Sunday morning, the state government reported the missile launch.
With a multi-stage rocket Unha of type-2 (in the West as a Taepodong-to) know 2 of the telecommunications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 have been sent into orbit. "The spacecraft is operating normally in orbit," reported the state-controlled news agency KNCA.
But: Both South Korean media say as from U.S. military, the launch was mussglückt. According to CNN, it had not been able to bring the satellite into orbit.
The satellite transmits data according nordkoreansichen information and songs that praise the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and his son, the current leader Kim Jong Il.
Politicians of the EU, the U.S. and China strongly condemned the rocket launch. The launch was a breach of Resolution 1718 of UN Security Council. The EU called on North Korea to abandon its missile plans, and to renounce all nuclear weapons and nuclear programs.
Fear is in the start if they were actually about the testing of long-range missiles.
The Foreign Office in Berlin, expressed concern. The launch of the rocket was a "clear provocation", which threatens to exacerbate the situation on the Korean peninsula, said a spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stein Meier.
