Israel says it can be used to build rocket launch pads and military tunnels.
The resolution warned of "significant action" if Pyongyang conducted another rocket launch or a nuclear test.
Notwithstanding the 12 December rocket launch, the North's ballistic missile capabilities remain relatively underdeveloped.
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Scientists who worked on last week's long-range rocket launch also attended, state television said.
North Korea has staged a mass rally in Pyongyang to celebrate Wednesday's long-range rocket launch.
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The operation involved the test of Taiwan's Thunderbolt-2000 multiple rocket launch system for the first time, military officials said.
It was revised after North Korea tested a long-range rocket launch in April.
There had been at least two tests of rocket motors since a failed rocket launch in April, it said.
Video of a rocket launch was set to a Middle Eastern techno beat.
North Korea walked away from the so-called six-party talks in 2009 after it was penalized for its last rocket launch.
Wednesday's mission was the ninth Ariane rocket launch this year and the 40th consecutive successful launch of an Ariane-4 rocket.
Washington, Tokyo, Seoul and others consider both the rocket launch and the nuclear test provocative acts that threaten regional security.
Washington and Seoul have called North Korea's rocket launch a cover for a test of Pyongyang's banned ballistic missile technology.
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Recent satellite images show that North Korea has been conducting tests at a rocket launch site, says a US academic organisation.
Markets showed relief when North Korea's rocket launch on Friday morning fizzled out, with the rocket breaking apart soon after liftoff.
The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution condemning a rocket launch by North Korea and tightening sanctions, diplomats say.
Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Pyongyang's rocket launch as a violation of a ban against nuclear and missile activity.
In April, North Korea conducted a failed long-range rocket launch that it said was an attempt to put a satellite into orbit.
Its announcement followed the adoption by the UN Security Council of a resolution condemning North Korea's recent rocket launch and extending sanctions.
North Korea threatened a pre-emptive strike against the U.S., and conducted an underground nuclear test in February and a rocket launch in December.
The fraught situation on the Korean Peninsula stems from the North's latest long-range rocket launch in December and underground nuclear test in February.
The UN Security Council agreed in January to increase sanctions against North Korea after it carried out a long-range rocket launch in December.
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North Korea appears to be upgrading one of its two rocket launch sites, US experts say, perhaps in a move to test bigger rockets.
On Sunday ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam praised Kim Jong-il's role in the rocket launch at the giant rally in a Pyongyang sports stadium.
Pyongyang conducted a failed long-range rocket launch during last year's celebrations.
The shutdown comes amid rising rhetoric and threats of attack from Pyongyang in response to U.N. punishment for its December rocket launch and February nuclear test.
It was a response to a rocket launch in December that the US, Japan and South Korea say was a test of banned long-range missile technology.
The statement says the rocket launch was "in contravention" to a 2006 Security Council resolution that demanded that North Korea not launch any ballistic missiles.
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