North Korea Defiant As It Begins Fuelling Rocket

North Korea has said that the fuelling of a long-range rocket is under way, despite international protests against the launch scheduled for later this week.

"We are injecting fuel as we speak. It has started," Paek Chang-Ho, director of the satellite control centre on the outskirts of the capital Pyongyang, said.

Tensions in the region have been heightened as the reclusive Communist state has proceeded towards a test-firing countdown.

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