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South Korea urges North to cancel rocket launch plan.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap

Seoul, 22 March: South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan [Kim So'ng-hwan] on Thursday [22 March] "strongly" called on North Korea to abandon its plan to launch a long-range rocket, which sparked fresh tensions on the Korean Peninsula ahead of a global nuclear summit scheduled for next week.

The North's planned rocket launch will be discussed bilaterally and multilaterally on the sidelines of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul starting Monday, Kim told reporters, as Seoul seeks to raise the issue to increase pressure on Pyongyang.

"North Korea's plan to launch a so-called 'application …

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