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Purposes to Continue Orbiting Space: KCST Spokesman Pyongyang,
April 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean Committee for
Space Technology (KCST) Thursday released the following
statement:  Since the KCST's announcement of the planned launch
of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 on March 16, the issue of the
DPRK's satellite launch has become topic of debate in the world.
The U.S. and Japanese reactionaries and their special class
stooge Lee Myung Bak are taking the lead in the smear campaign.
It is their brigandish assertion and their lackey's nonsensical
talk that the DPRK should not be allowed to launch a satellite
for peaceful purposes.  They claim that as Kwangmyongsong-3 was
launched by Unha carrier rocket, it was not a satellite but a
long-range missile and it, therefore, seriously threatened the
U.S. mainland and Japanese archipelago and made south Korea
unstable.  Finally, they made a far-fetched assertion that the
DPRK's launch of the abo