More Warnings For North Korea Over Planned Launch

North Korean plans to launch a rocket in April, met with continued hostility and warnings. The United States and Japan have already warned them not to.

On Monday, China and South Korea joined the nay sayers. China pledged to do it's best to dissuade North Korea from actually attempting the launch. South Korea joined Japan in saying they may shoot it down if it crosses their airspace.

North Korea maintains that the rocket is purely for scientific reasons, and will launch a satellite into space. The other countries condemn it as a long range missile test, and warn that it would hamper peace processes, likely including food shipments.

Originally the trajectory would have had it go across the main islands of Japan, eastwards, just as a previous rockets have in the past. Last week North Korea replotted the course to go south, causing concerns it may hit Indonesia or even Australia, should it fall back to the earth.