North Korea: No one can deny our sovereign right to launch a satellite. Statement by Kim Yeo-jeong, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
Pyongyang: "We are well aware of the long-term prospect of a confrontation with the US and will do our best to improve war deterrence in a comprehensive way"
PYONGYANG - North Korean state news agency KCNA: "The United States is openly revealing its constitutional anti-DPRK hostility over the launch of a military reconnaissance satellite belonging to the DPRK's right to self-defense.