Japan urges N. Korea not to launch rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (far R) answers reporters' questions at the ministry in Tokyo on March 16, 2012, regarding North Korea's announcement the same day that it will launch a rocket mounted with an earth observation satellite in mid-April. Gemba said the North Korean launch would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution.

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