Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket launch

Japan prepares for N. Korea rocket launch

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the transport vessel Osumi, carrying a ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor system, leaving a Maritime Self-Defense Force base in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on April 1, 2012. The interceptor will be deployed on Okinawa's Miyako Island ahead of a planned rocket launch by North Korea in mid-April.

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