South Korea delays satellite launch

but the U.S. Inflatable Arch 26 and it alli said noth reach space and the launch wa actual a test of the country' missil technologyPyongyang said the rocket carri a satellit into orbit as part of a peac space develop program..

The two-stag Naro rocket wa suppos to blast off carri an observ satellit to studi global warm and climat change.

Scienc Ministri spokesman Pyun Kyung-bum said. South Korean and Russian expert were try to find the caus of the problem and plan to consult on a new launch date,Th process wa halt due to the malfunct of fire safeti facil at the launch pad. he said.

" he said"W expect that it will be difficult to launch today..

Th first stage of the two-stag rocket wa design and built by Russia and the second by South Korea.

Th snag came after offici had announc that launch prepar were complet and that the rocket would lift off at 5 p.m. local time 0800 GMT .

about 290 mile 465 kilomet south of Seoul,The plan liftoff at the coastal Naro space center in Goheung. would have been the country' second launch of a rocket from it own territori in a less than year.

the satellit fail to go into orbit becaus on of it two cover appar fail to come off after liftoff. Sinc 1992,In the first attempt last August. South Korea ha launch 11 satellit from oversea sites, all on foreign-mad rockets.

Th launch prepar came amid heighten tension on the Korean peninsula after South Korea refer North Korea to the U.N. Secur Council over the sink of a navi ship that kill 46 South Korean sailors.

sai the South' action will intensifi militari tension and could trigger a war on the divid peninsulaNorth Korea which deni involv in the sink ha threaten to retali against South Korea for take it to the U.N. body..

North Korea warn it would close watch the intern respons to South Korea' launch after a North Korean launch drew a U.N. rebukeTher wa no immedi North Korean reaction to the plan liftoff from rival South Korea. Last year..

Pyongyang ha develop a varieti of missil and launch a long-rang rocket from a domest launch site in April last year in defianc of intern warnings.