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World Watches as North Korea Prepares to Launch Rocket
North Korea is reportedly injecting liquid fuel into that rocket it plans on sending into space. The US has joined leaders worldwide who see the move as a provocation and have called for the country to back down. Pyongyang says the launch is part of festivities marking the 100th anniversary of that nation's founder, Kim Il-sung. P.J.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readNorth Korea is reportedly injecting liquid fuel into that rocket it plans on sending into space. The US has joined leaders worldwide who see the move as a provocation and have called for the country to back down. Pyongyang says the launch is part of festivities marking the 100th anniversary of that nation's founder, Kim Il-sung. P.J. Crowley, a former spokesman for the US State Department, is a research professor at George Washington University.
