With
only days to go before launching a satellite to mark the centenary of
its late founder Kim Il-sung’s birth, North Korea held a series of
lavish events to celebrate the completion of power plants, factories and
buildings, news reports said.
North Korea has said it will launch
Kwangmyongsong-3 some time between April 12 and 16, in celebration of
the 100th year of Kim’s birth on April 15. The launch is part of moves
to declare 2012 the year when North Korea becomes a “power state.”
The
North’s Korean Central News Agency said on Friday that Pyongyang held
ceremonies to mark the completion of Huichon Power Plant 1 and 2,
located near Chongchon River, capable of generating 300,000 kilowatts of
electricity. The construction of the two power plants was a major goal
for Pyongyang, and one which late leader Kim Jong-il had ordered reached
by 2012.
The North also unveiled a huge rock carving on Thursday in memory of the nation’s founder.
The
37-meter inscription was hewn into a natural rock face near Bakyeon
Falls in Gaeseong city, near the border with South Korea, the official
news agency said.
The message ― “Our eternal leader Comrade Kim
Il-sung: Dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the leader, April
15, Juche 101 (2012)” ― is “an immortal monument which will always shine
along with the Seongun era,” the news agency said.
On the same
day, multiple news reports from the state said the North completed a
clothes factory, a water pipe linking Nampo and Pyongyang and a cement
factory.
In Pyongyang, development projects are still under way in the Mansudae area for high-rise apartments and a theater.
In
the eastern part of the capital, which is less developed than western
Pyongyang, the North is near completion of a public bath house and an
outdoor ice-skating venue, according to state media.
Along with the celebrations, the North’s rocket launch is nearly ready, analysts said.
A
U.S. specialist website, the 38 North, said the North may have moved
the first stage of a long-range rocket to its launch pad, ahead of its
possible lift-off this or next week.
An April 4 photo of the
launch site at Dongchang-ri in the country’s northwest indicated the
first stage of the Unha-3 rocket, while not visible, may be placed in
the gantry, the website said.
Meanwhile, foreign media reporters
have arrived in Pyongyang to cover the North’s planned rocket launch,
the country’s official news agency reported.
The North’s official
Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch Saturday that reporters
from more than 20 media firms, including the Associated Press, CNN,
Reuters, AFP, BBC, Kyodo News and NHK, had arrived in Pyongyang on
Friday and Saturday.
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