The North Korean rocket that is fuelled and poised for an imminent launch could fly over Perth, according to projected trajectories captured by an international news crew.
North Korea has opened its doors to foreign media and cameras were able to zoom in on a launch employee observing what appeared to be the planned trajectory of the rocket.
The footage clearly showed two lines of trajectory passing over populated areas of Western Australia.
Amateur satellite watcher Tim Molczan mapped three possible trajectories of the rocket, with two passing over populated regions of Australia's west coast, and a third crossing closer to the centre of the continent, according to blog North Korea Tech.
No debris from the rocket is expected to impact Australia with the first two stages expected to be dropped in waters near South Korea and the Philippines.
The Unha-3 rocket, mounted with an Earth observation satellite, is set to be launched as part of celebrations in the country in the lead up to Sunday, the 100th anniversary of the late President Kim Il Sung's birth.
Sunday will also mark new leader Kim Jong Un's formal ascension in 2011, nearly four months after the death of his father.
Experts say a modified Unha-3 carrier could be used to deliver a nuclear payload.
The United States, Japan, Britain and others say the launch would constitute a provocation and would violate UN Security Council resolutions banning North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs.
North Korean space officials call the launch of the rocket a "gift" to Kim Il Sung.
They said on Wednesday that the final step of injecting fuel into the three-stage rocket was underway in the coastal hamlet of Tongchang-ri.
"The launch of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite is the pride of our nation and of our people," Rim Kwang Myong, a mathematics major at Kim Il Sung University, told The Associated Press.
A live feed at the General Command Centre in the outskirts of Pyongyang showed the rocket on the launch pad covered with a tarp to protect the satellite from the wind.
Paek Chang Ho, chief of the command centre, said the rocket is ready for lift-off as soon as engineers are given the green light.
North Korea has informed international aviation, maritime and telecommunications authorities that the launch would take place between Thursday and Monday.
"We are injecting fuel as we speak," Paek told reporters from a viewing platform in front of a large screen showing the live feed. Sixteen scientists in white lab coats worked at computers below him.
Because liquid rocket fuel is highly volatile and corrosive, its injection into the rocket is usually one of the final steps in the pre-launch process, experts say. But the weather, and particularly the wind, could force delays.
Paek denied on Wednesday that the launch was anything but a peaceful civilian bid to send a satellite into space. He said the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite is designed to send back images and data that will be used for weather forecasts and agricultural surveys.
"Some parties insist our peaceful space program is a missile test," he told foreign reporters given an exclusive tour of the nation's main satellite command centre. "We don't really care what the outside world thinks. This launch is critical to developing our space program and improving our economy."
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Tuesday that the launch would be a direct threat to regional security and that the US would pursue "appropriate action" at the Security Council if North Korea goes ahead with it.http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8450272/perth-in-firing-line-of-north-korean-rocket
Phark 
Don't worry too much. Perth and the rest of Australia's big cities along with the US bases here were probably the target of Soviet nuclear weapons for about 20 years and nothing happened. The most North Korea could do is destroy Seoul with artillery. After that their army would fall apart if it came to a shooting war.
Hopefully their necropracy will fall over soon.
The yanks probably have more dangerous satellites flying over our heads every day.
Why can so many other countries launch satellites but this
Meeew! we risk nuthin..... the end of the world is programmed for 21/12/12! another 8 months to go! Lets party hard!
(no bad excuse for a party!)
Its a military secret that the Americans used chemtrails to defeat the Nazis. An American army boffin came up with the idea after watching crop dusters spray pesticide to kill grasshoppers.
An example can be seen here:
Much more effective than high explosives. The Germans didn't know what hit them but there were lots of confused Germans complaining of sore throats, headaches and cancer pointing up at the sky. Fortunately the interweb and utube had not been invented back then, otherwise the Japanese would have copped chemtrails too, rather than firebombing and nuclear weapons.
Yeah apparently North Korea is the world's only Necrocracy (I wasn't sure of the spelling before). What spung to attention in the article was how they are launching this rocket as a gift to a bloke who died about 20 years ago and who is still running the country.
How many nukes do the US have? Why do they get to be the rulers of the world? If one of the crazy Republican evangelicals makes it to office there who knows what they might decide is right for the world.
it will only make a big hole in the ground which wouldn't look out of place over there
I think the biggest nuclear threat is from the Israelies. Look at the deception they went through to develop a nuclear program right under the nose of the USA.
Their actions in the middle east are far more worrying and provocative than that of North Korea's.
Its only Perth. Is it that bigger deal?
If it destroys the city it would hardly make the news over here in the real world.
there'd be a purging we could then blame the North Hyundais for the debacle
and perth goes back to the way it always was
dullsville
Considering the state of their country, North Korea would love to have a bit more land.. As would China and Indo. Make no mistake, they don't like us much.
Our treaty with the US is valuable, so if it flies over Australia we should shoot it down to let them continue to believe they can't take us out.
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It might even releive some of the traffic congestion and remove some east coast blow-ins
all kiters are blow ins. Its the nature of our sport....
