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By Ben Twarters
Security Correspondent

North Korea today launched its first long-range rocket, which soared into the sky and then exploded in a dazzling array of green and blue lights over Pyongyang.</b>

And despite international condemnation, with the US, Japan and South Korea calling for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council, the Suffolk Gazette can reveal that dictator Kim Jong-Un has further launch plans up his sleeve.

He intends to give world leaders a bloody nose by letting off a Roman Candle next Thursday - and claims his boffins are close to building their first Catherine Wheel.

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/north-korea-rocket-e1454841858840.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-2666"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/north-korea-rocket-e1454841858840.jpg" alt="north-korea-rocket" width="733" height="487" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2666" /></a></center><center><i>Up, up and away: the North Korean long-range rocket goes 200 metres into the sky</center></i><br><br>

"North Korea is clearly making giant leaps in its technological abilities, and the launch of this firework last night shows their ambition hold no bounds," said Kyoh Khang, the North Korean dissident who fled the regime and now lives in a secret Suffolk safe house.

"The use of these fireworks threatens the security of the entire region. Imagine if one of the rockets went off as planned, but the stick got picked up by the wind and then blew over into South Korea as it fell to the ground.

"It would be tantamount to a declaration of war, which would be a bit ironic because technically they have been at war since hostilities ended in 1953."

<center><div class="getty embed image" style="background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;"><div style="padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/158344971" target="_blank" style="color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;">Embed from Getty Images</a></div><div style="overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:75.925926% 0 0 0;width:100%;"><iframe src="//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/158344971?et=P3DJqtmDTH1_hANM_YciOQ&viewMoreLink=off&sig=3VjEik9nSvQKRBK6I8pBx8wAfSXL1FSoQQzQBsL6M78=" width="594" height="451" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;"></iframe></div><p style="margin:0;"></p></div></center><center><i>Boom: Kim Jong-Un monitors the rocket launch</center></i><br><br>

The rocket launch was seen as a "flagrant violation" of UN resolutions, and was a deliberate attempt to antagonise South Korea because it was let off close to midnight, just as everyone was trying to get to sleep.

Security officials in the UK are meeting to discuss whether the escalation in tensions could result in Kim Jong-Un being barred from entering the country to stay at his <a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/business/kim-jong-un-caravan/" target="_blank">holiday caravan on the Suffolk coast</a>.

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