North Korea: the rocket ready to fly at any time, Japan and the Philippines on alert

South Korea, Japan and the Philippines were on high alert Thursday against the imminent launch of a rocket North Korea condemned by the international community, which criticizes a disguised test launch of ballistic missile in violation of resolutions UN.

North Korea announced its intention to launch a rocket Unha-3 between 12 and 16 April, between 7:00 ET 24:00 local (2200 GMT and 0300 GMT), to place in orbit a satellite earth observation.
This project coincides with the one hundredth birthday of the founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Il Sung, born April 15, 1912 and died in 1994.

His grand-son Kim Jong-A successor at the head of the communist regime in his father Kim Jong-Il, died Dec. 17, to drive North Korea, isolated and impoverished, on the path of "a strong state and prosperous. "
The North Korean regime claims that the satellite is for civilian use, but the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan suspect the preparation of a ballistic missile test.

At the opening of a G8 meeting in Washington Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accused Pyongyang of violating "numerous resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations". "We are all very committed to the stability of the Korean Peninsula," she added.
The rocket has not left its launch pad on Thursday in the time interval and daily announced the launch should now not take place before Friday, according to Seoul.

The sky was overcast Thursday above the base Tongchang-ri, in the extreme northwest of the country, where the launcher and its satellite were positioned.
North Korea has invited dozens of foreign correspondents - officially between 150 and 200 - to Tongchang-ri and a large screen was installed in Pyongyang in an international press center to provide brand new, apparently, journalists to follow the firing line.

South Korea, Japan and the Philippines were on alert Thursday against the imminent launch of the rocket whose trajectory had to fly over or near their territories.
The first floor must fall in the Yellow Sea, west of the Korean Peninsula, and the second floor in the eastern Philippines, flying over some of the islands of Okinawa (southern Japan).
"We are prepared for any eventuality," said Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, told reporters.
A Ishigaki, an island in southern Okinawa islands located in the projected path of the rocket, officials rallied early in the morning.
"We will remain on alert every day 6:00 am to 2:00 p.m., until Monday," he told AFP Choichi Ameku, an official of the municipality of Ishigaki.
Authorities have advised residents of the island do not stay out in the minutes following the shooting of North Korea, and not to approach any possible debris falling to the ground because of their dangerousness, he said.
Referring to the possible fall of the launch vehicle or its debris in their territory, South Korea, like Japan said they were ready to shoot down the rocket if necessary.
The Philippine government has in turn directed the airlines to avoid an area that could be affected by falling debris, changing the routes taken by twenty flights.

The regime has this week installed the young Kim Jong-A to the highest offices of the communist state.
Aged under thirty years, Kim Jong-A has been designated "First Secretary" of the ruling party, the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and "president" of the powerful Central Military Commission.
He already had the title of supreme commander of the armed forces of North Korea, high of 1.2 million men (about 24 million inhabitants), and have an embryonic nuclear arsenal.

It could also be propelled to the head of the National Defense, a governing body the country on behalf of the doctrine of "Songun" that gives priority to the army.