Missile launch preparations completed in N Korea

North Korea has completed preparations for a missile launch from the Tongchangri range in the Pyongan-pukto province where a long-range system was transported.

In particular,an electric power and fuel supply tower has been installed at the site that will also allow engineers to check the missile’s systems,the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported today quoting a government source.

However,the launch is not planned immediately because there are no tracking radars at the range and the missile is not on the launch pad,the source was quoted as saying by the paper.

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Analysis of satellite images makes it possible to suppose that the launch structure is 50 metres high,which considerably surpasses the earlier estimates of 30 metres and allows launching intercontinental ballistic missiles with the length of 40 metres and more.

At the Musudanri range built earlier,the launch pad is 32 metres high and it is three times less in size than the new launching complex.

However,experts so far have not arrived at the common conclusion about the type of the rocket that may be fired from Tongchangri.

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