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Launch window opens for N. Korean rocket

Published: December 10. 2012 4:00AM PST

SEOUL, South Korea — A near two-week launch window for a North Korean long-range rocket began today, a day after Pyongyang said it may delay liftoff. North Korea has faced mounting international pressure to abandon what critics call a cover for a banned missile test.

North Korean scientists had been pushing forward with final preparations for the launch from a west coast site but are considering “readjusting" the timing for unspecified reasons, an unidentified spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology said in a dispatch released by North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency early Sunday.

— From wire reports

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