SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Monday that a technical glitch has been found in the rocket it had planned to launch as early this week but that it still planned to try to put a satellite into orbit by the end of December.
North Korea announced early this month that it would launch its Unha-3 rocket between Monday and Dec. 22 to send its Kwangmyongsong satellite into orbit. On Sunday, without specifying a reason, it said that it might have to postpone the launch, triggering speculation in the rest of the region on what may have motivated the country to consider a delay.
On Monday, a spokesman for the country's Korean Committee of Space Technology said that scientists found "a technical deficiency in the first-stage control engine module" of the three-stage rocket.
Although the preparations to launch the rocket were "at the last stage," scientists were forced to extend the window for a launching by a week until Dec. 29, the spokesman was quoted as saying by the North's Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea said it was exercising its right to peaceful use of space technology by sending a scientific satellite into orbit. But the United Nations Security Council, as well as Washington and its allies, insisted that North Korea has been launching rockets to develop the technology need to deliver a nuclear warhead on long-range ballistic missiles. The county is banned from testing such technology under U.N. resolutions and sanctions have been imposed for its previous tests.
Since 1998, North Korea has launched four rockets that Washington said were a cover for testing ballistic missile technology. North Korea claimed to have successfully put a satellite into orbit in 1998 and again in 2009, but Western experts said the four rockets all failed. The last rocket, which was launched in April, disintegrated shortly after takeoff, embarrassing the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un before foreign reporters it had invited to watch the launching.
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