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SEOUL, March 25 (UPI) -- South Korea told China Wednesday it strongly opposes plans by North Korea to carry out a rocket launch set for next month, sources say.
An unnamed South Korean defense official said Gen. Chen Bingde, Chief of Staff of China's People's Liberation Army, met his South Korean counterpart Wednesday in an effort to defuse tensions over the rocket launch, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
While Pyongyang says the launch, which has been scheduled for between April 4-8, is a communications satellite, others believe that is a cover to test its Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Alaska.
The anonymous defense official told Yonhap that South Korea would again tell the Chinese delegation it was opposed to the rocket launch and appeal to China as North Korea's top benefactor to do what it can to halt the firing.
"We plan to relay to the Chinese delegation our demand that North Korea heed international warnings and halt its preparations for the launch," the official said.
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