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Urgent: China regrets DPRK's satellite launch

Xinhua, February 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

China expressed regrets after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched an earth-observation satellite Sunday morning.

It has been the first time since December 2012 that the DPRK conducts such a test.

Under United Nations Security Council resolutions, the DPRK is banned from test-firing any rocket, based on the ballistic missile technology. Endi