Seoul, November 21 (AP) North Korea has told Japan that it will make a third attempt to launch a military spy satellite later this month. Japanese media gave this news on Tuesday.
Kyodo News quoted Japan’s coast guard as saying that North Korea informed Tokyo of its plan to launch a spy satellite sometime between November 20 and November 30.
It was reported that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told officials to try to talk Pyongyang into canceling the plan with the cooperation of the US and South Korea.
Earlier this year, two attempts by North Korea to launch satellites failed due to a technical glitch in the rocket carrying the satellite.
Earlier, North Korea had said that the third launch could be done any time in October, but it failed to do so.
AP Khari Santosh
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