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A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country's second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un's hopes to field satellites to monitor the US and South Korea.. Mondays failed launch came hours after leaders of South Korea, China and Japan met in Seoul in their first trilateral meeting in more than four years..
Its highly unusual for North Korea to take provocative action when China, its major ally and economic pipeline, is engaging in high-level diplomacy in the region...
The warning was lifted later because the region was no longer in danger, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said.. Earlier Monday, North Korea had notified Japans coast guard about its plans to launch a satellite rocket, with a warning to exercise caution in the waters between the Korean Peninsula and China and east of the main Philippine island of Luzon during a launch window from Monday through June 3...
During the trilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese Premier Li Qiang earlier Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called for stern international action if North Korea went ahead with its launch plan...
South Koreas Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday it detected a launch trajectory believed to be of a spy satellite fired from the Norths main space centre at 10:44 p.m. on Monday..
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