[SE Mom]

This from AP:

There are signs" of a missile launch, Jung Tae-ho, a spokesman at the South Korean president's office, told The Associated Press, without elaborating. He said security officials were "closely watching the situation."

South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing a South Korean government official, reported that the weather around the North Korean launch site was bad, indicating the North may not fire its missile Sunday.

Satellite weather images posted on the Web site of the South's Korea Meteorological Administration showed clouds around the launch site in northeastern North Korea as of early evening.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What is known at this moment (mid morning US East Coast time Sunday):

The rocket on the pad in Musudan-ri, Hwadae County, North Korea is a Taepodong-2.

It has a heighth of 35 meters. At the highest diameter (lower stage booster rocket), it is 2.2 meters in width.

It therefore has a capacity neary 40% MORE than the Taepodong which was launched from there, right smack over Japan, in 1998. This is known from shadow interpretaton from satellite photos taken of the missile just recently by private firms.

[dawn53]

Thanks for the update.

[CindyDawg]

the weather around the North Korean launch site was bad,

Thank you Lord.