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(CNN)The satellite North Korea fired into space on Sunday is "tumbling in orbit" and incapable of functioning in any
useful way, a senior U.S. defense official told CNN.
Sunday's launch of the long-range rocket triggered a wave of international condemnation and prompted strong reaction
from an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
North Korea maintained the launch was for scientific and "peaceful purposes."
South Korea has recovered about 270 pieces of debris, believed to have come from the rocket launch, from the ocean
Sunday and is working to analyze the objects, a South Korean Defense Ministry official told CNN.
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North Koreans celebrated the country's launch of a satellite into orbit with an official fireworks display Monday night in Pyongyang, state broadcaster KCTV reported.
"We hope that the future of our space technology keeps growing and shines like these fireworks in the sky," an announcer on the North Korean broadcaster said during
coverage of the celebrations in the capital.
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Yoon Dong Hyun, vice director of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, struck a defiant note in a speech at the celebrations, vowing the country would continue
developing its aerospace technology in the face of international sanctions. Efforts by other countries to block such an advance were "nothing more than a puppy barking
towards the moon," he said.
The United States and other nations widely viewed the deployment of the dual-use technology as a front to test a ballistic missile, especially coming on the heels of a purported
hydrogen bomb test last month.
Pyongyang carried out both acts in defiance of international sanctions.
At an emergency meeting Sunday, members of the Security Council "strongly condemned" the launch and reaffirmed
that "a clear threat to international peace and security continues to exist, especially in the context of the nuclear test."
It vowed to undertake punitive actions against North Korea, announcing plans to "adopt expeditiously a new Security
Council resolution with such measures in response to these dangerous and serious violations," according to a statement
read by Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations after the meeting.
Sanctions already in place against Pyongyang ban it from working with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, blacklist
certain figures and organizations and prohibit the import of luxury goods.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye called the launch a "challenge to world peace," while her government
announced it would begin talks with the United States to deploy a defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area
Defense, or THAAD, which can intercept missiles in flight.
A U.S. defense official told CNN that plans to implement the missile defense system had been accelerated in response
to the launch, and it could potentially be deployed within weeks.
China has criticized the plans to implement THAAD, and it summoned the South Korean ambassador following Seoul's
announcement on the system.
South Korea also planned to reduce the personnel at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint economic development
zone between the two Koreas, from 650 to 500 "in consideration of safety of our people," the South Korean Unification
Ministry said.
South Korea fired warning shots Monday morning after a North Korean patrol boat crossed the maritime border between
the Koreas, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.
The North Korean boat withdrew about 20 minutes later, the ministry said.
Such incidents are not uncommon, CNN's Paula Hancocks reports. But the timing of this one -- so soon after North
Korea's rocket launch -- will likely bring additional scrutiny to the incident, she said.
Satellite in orbit
The Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket blasted off from the Sohae launch facility at 9 a.m. Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday), entering orbit nine minutes and 46 seconds after
liftoff, North Korea's state news agency KCNA reported.
A state TV newsreader said that the launch had been personally ordered and directed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who was pictured smiling in official photographs as
he oversaw the launch, and that more satellite launches were planned.
The Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket blasted off from the Sohae launch facility at 9 a.m Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET
Saturday), entering orbit nine minutes and 46 seconds after liftoff, North Korea's state news agency KCNA
reported.
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A senior U.S. defense official said the rocket headed toward space and, based on its trajectory over the Yellow Sea, "did not pose a threat to the U.S. or our allies."
At least two new objects have been detected in Earth's orbit and are being tracked, a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command told CNN on Sunday. The objects appeared to
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be the satellite and the final stage of the rocket booster, said arms control expert David Wright, co-director of the Union of Concerned Scientists Global Security Program.
Japan's analysis indicated parts of the rocket fell in four locations offshore after takeoff, the Japanese Prime Minister's office said via Twitter.
A South Korean lawmaker said Sunday that intelligence suggested the launch had likely been timed to coincide with the Super Bowl and Chinese New Year to maximize
international media impact.
"The date of the launch appears to be in consideration of the weather condition and ahead of the Lunar New Year and the U.S. Super Bowl," said Jo Ho-young, chairman of
the South Korean National Assembly Intelligence Committee.
Swift condemnation
The United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, the European Union and NATO issued statements condemning the launch.
Both China and Britain summoned North Korea's ambassadors to their capitals protest the launch, their governments said.
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Treaty (NPT)
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