Japan readies N. Korea missile defense

From Yoko Wakatsuki, CNN

March 23, 2012 -- Updated 0726 GMT (1526 HKT)

A new satellite image of a North Korean launch pad reveals a new rail extension but little on-site activity ahead of a controversial rocket launch planned for April.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• North Korea's announcement of a planned satellite launch has provoked alarm
• Other countries say it is a way of testing missile technology
• The Japanese defense minister orders the preparation of missile defenses

Tokyo (CNN) -- The Japanese defense minister said Friday that he had ordered the country's military to prepare a missile defense system ahead of a planned rocket launch by North Korea next month.

North Korea said last week that it is planning to carry out a rocket-powered satellite launch between April 12 and 16, alarming countries around the region.

South Korea has said it considers the satellite launch an attempt to develop a nuclear-armed missile, while the United States has warned the move would jeopardize a food-aid agreement reached with Pyongyang in early March.

Naoki Tanaka, the Japanese defense minister, said at a news conference Friday that he had requested that officials get ready for the deployment of anti-missile PAC3 and Eagis ships ahead of the launch.

The Japanese government is also considering deploying a PAC3 missile defense system in Okinawa. Tanaka said he would visit Okinawa soon in preparation for such a move.

Tanaka had said Monday that he would consider ordering the destruction of the projectile if it presented a risk to Japan.

North Korea says it has a right to a peaceful space program and has invited international space experts and journalists to witness the launch.

In a recent notice to the International Maritime Organization regarding the "launch of an earth observation satellite," the North Korean government provided notice of where the anticipated drop zones would be for the two-stage rocket.

The notice was signed by North Korea's director general of its maritime administration, Ko Nung Du, and advised the launch would take place between 7 a.m. and noon, local time, on one of the expected days.

The rocket's path will go over "the South Korean islands of Baegryeong-do, Daecheong-do and Socheong-do, and then across open water until it passes between Japan's Miyako and Ishigaki islands before heading further south," according to the North Korea Tech blog which first obtained the North Korea documents and has plotted the coordinates.

The expected drop zones of the two-stage rocket are off the western coast of South Korea and to the east of Luzon Island in the Philippines, according to the blog.

CNN's Adam Levine contributed to this report.

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Sudanese refugees find unlikely home in rural Australia

A rural Australian gold mining and farming town famous as the birthplace of "Waltzing Matilda" poet Banjo Paterson seems an unlikely home for refugees fleeing decades of conflict in Sudan.

But what started with a single pioneering family has become a thriving community of more than 300 people from the strife-torn north African nation who call pastoral Orange home.

"Maybe its best town in the world, especially the weather," explained Sudanese refugee Fathi Shouma in broken English.

"It is like area where we come from in Sudan, it's looking like same area and reminding me I'm living in the same area when I was born. Happy life is going on here."

Shouma's road to peace has been a long one -- he and wife Neimat Darar spent three years in an Egyptian refugee camp after fleeing their native Nuba Mountains, in South Kordofan, amid raging civil war.

It was a time they would sooner forget; women were known to vanish and there were stories of refugees being killed for their organs, with overcrowding, heat and disease a fact of daily life.

"Egypt is very hard," says Darar, sadly. "We can thank the God because he take us from there and we come here safely."

Proudly serving coffee in the kitchen of their modest brick home as the laughter of their children can be heard from the front lawn, Egypt seems a world away from suburban Orange.

But an influx of Sudanese have made it a home away from home. At the time of last census in 2006, some 24 percent of people in Australia on refugee visas at that time were from Sudan, making it the number one country of birth for humanitarian migrants to Australia. Iraq was second, followed by Afghanistan.

It has been seven years since the first family -- Osman Tag, his wife and seven children -- left Sydney where most of the refugees are initially settled, to find a new life in the 37,000-person town famed for its mines, agriculture, rugby team and icy winters.

Paterson, one of Australia's most famous poets and author of the iconic national folk-song "Waltzing Matilda", drew inspiration from the region's rolling hills and rivers, and Tag was reminded of Sudan's mountain country.

"I was born in a small village, small town is better to get good friend," Tag told AFP.

Though they're less than one percent of the town's general population, the Sudanese account for about 11 percent of Orange's multicultural community, which city spokeswoman Anni Gallagher described as a "significant" number.

Two-thirds of them are children and the move to rural Australia has been a sometimes challenging experience.

Local cultural programmes include horse-riding and learning to swim in the bright blue waters of the local swimming pool -- rites of passage for the town's children but very foreign experiences for the young refugees.

"We had kids who are usually quite cocky, and they were quite frightened of the water, couldn't get their feet off the ground," said programme supervisor Karen Boyde.

For the parents, too, it can be overwhelming to navigate the bureaucracy of schools, job-seeking and tenancy with little or no English and very often no reading skills due to the oral nature of South Sudanese languages.

Local retirees Sam and Jenny Grosvenor were assigned to help Fathi and Neimat with simple tasks -- filling out forms and reading the newspaper -- but their relationship has blossomed over the years into a firm friendship.

"It's been deeply rewarding for us, they're amazing, they really are. We've learned from them as they have from us and we continue to learn," says Jenny.

They helped Darar find work as a meat-packer at the local supermarket, an early morning job that allows her to be home in time for her three children to return from school.

Shouma got a petrol station job after appearing in the town's newspaper.

Employment is a major challenge for the town's growing refugee population, along with housing and access to the intensive language and other skills training many dream of in order to get ahead.

Adjusting culturally to a new life can also be testing for those raised in the Sudanese tradition, where offspring remain in the family home until they are married, according to community elder Abdul Jabbard Hessein.

"Here it is different, after 16 they will depend on themselves and go out. It is not good for us," says Hessein.

It's been a culture shock for Orange too -- frictions between the Sudanese and local Aboriginal communities have flared from time to time and there was a degree of suspicion initially from some townsfolk.

"That changed overnight because of their warmth," says Jenny Grosvenor.

Rural Australia has not always responded warmly to Sudanese refugees -- the nation's country music capital Tamworth famously rejected a request to resettle five families back in 2006 for fears it would spark a race riot, saying the refugees already living there had no respect for Australian laws and customs.

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Shouma and Darar are the first Sudanese to buy their own house in Orange, but they worry about family and friends still in Egypt and fleeing the bombing of their homelands.

"It's very difficult sometimes, we are thinking much. (But) we are looking (out) for kids, not for us. The kids are very happy," Shouma says.

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