Experts from around the world, including many leading Ploughshares Fund grantees, condemned the launch yesterday of what is believed to be North Korea's long-range Taepo Dong-2 rocket satellite carrier. The Arms Control Association [2] called it a "confrontational move that undermines stability in the region and makes progress in the six-party talks on that country's denuclearization more difficult to achieve."
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/527
[2] http://www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/DPRKlaunchApril2009