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Engineers check the base of Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012. North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental United States.Bobby Yip/REUTERS

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The control center inside the Sohae Satellite Station is open to foreign news agencies in Tongchang-ri, North Korea Sunday, April 8, 2012. North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity.Kyodo News/AP Photo

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The Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket is pictured on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012.Bobby Yip/REUTERS

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Soldiers stand guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012.Bobby Yip/REUTERS

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Journalists leave the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket as it sits on a launch pad during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site in Cholsan, northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012 and released by the North's official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang April 9, 2012.KCNA/REUTERS

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The Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket is pictured sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012.Bobby Yip/REUTERS

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In this April 8, 2012 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a staff member, right, introduces the situation to the journalists in control and command center of Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea.Xinhua/Zhang Li/AP Photo

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The satellite that North Korean officials say will be launched with the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, is shown to the media at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea on Sunday April 8, 2012.Kyodo News/AP Photo

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A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012.Bobby Yip/REUTERS

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The Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket is pictured on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012.Bobby Yip/REUTERS

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