SEOUL, South Korea — Japanese, South Korean and U.S. missile-destroying ships have set sail to monitor North Korea’s imminent rocket launch.
North Korea says it will send a communications satellite into orbit between Saturday and April 8. The U.S., South Korea and Japan suspect the regime is using the launch to test long-range missile technology.
Further heightening tensions on the divided peninsula, North Korean authorities detained a South Korean worker at a joint industrial zone in the North for allegedly denouncing Pyongyang’s political system and inciting female northern workers to flee the country. North Korea assured Seoul it would guarantee the man’s safety during an investigation, according to the South Korean Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North.
The Associated Press
