2ND LD: N. Korea state-run TV broadcasts rocket launch footage+

PYONGYANG/BEIJING, April 7 Kyodo -
(EDS: CLARIFYING DESCRIPTION OF TV STATION IN LEAD GRAF)
North Korea's state-run television station on Tuesday broadcast video footage
of Sunday's rocket launch by the country, which Pyongyang says put a satellite
into orbit.

In its news broadcast in the evening, Korean Central Television Station showed
the white three-stage rocket blast off into the sky.
According to the footage, the word ''Korea'' was written in Korean on the first
stage of the rocket. The national flag of North Korea was drawn on its second
stage.
The news program also showed the satellite control and command center as well
as a monitor set up in front of it, and the rocket while it was on the launch
pad.
North Korea said on Sunday that the experimental communications satellite
''Kwangmyongsong-2'' entered orbit 9 minutes and 2 seconds after the launch of
the ''Unha-2'' carrier rocket at 11:20 am from a launch facility on the
country's east coast.
But Japan, South Korea and the United States see it as a disguised test-firing
of a ballistic missile aimed at developing its missile system.
The United States has said no satellite entered into orbit as a result of the
launch.
In a separate program on Tuesday, the North Korean television station showed
the first video footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il since his reported
illness last year.
While still photographs of his field guidance visits had been released earlier
by North Korea's state-run media, they were the first moving images of the
leader after his reported recovery.
==Kyodo