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Temple on the river: a fading holy land

asiaartshop — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:25:14 +0000

Temple on the river: a fading holy land
Chinese calligraphy

FUZHOU -- Jinshan Temple looks as if it is beset in a bucolic Chinese ink painting. A cloud dims nearby mountains to light gray shadows, where the Min River disappears. On the serene waters, fishermen spread out nets from a small wooden rowboat.

The delicate and exquisite temple has sat on the banks of the Min River for nearly 1,000 years in the village of Hongtang in Fuzhou, a port city in southeast China's Fujian province.

But not far away on the shore are rows of Victorian-style villas and a new highway. Two hundred meters north of the temple, an 1,800-meter-long bridge spans the river, with cars from outside of the city lining up to cross the bridge.

"An entrepreneur came here for Kau Cim (fortune-telling) and then went back making a big fortune a couple of years ago," says 69-year-old Wang Guozhong, the temple's Kau Cim interpreter.

The ancient Chinese fortune-telling practice of Kau Cim requires the fortune-seeker to ask questions and request answers from a sacred oracle in front of the temple's altar.

Like many other local villagers, Wang believes the temple is an "unsinkable boat" blessed by gods, making it the perfect place to worship and tell fortunes. Four or five old women gather around him, waiting for their own fortunes to be told. He writes down their names, addresses and the questions they have asked on thin yellow parchment.

Jinshan Temple was built during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). It was constructed on the bedrock of a small island with a simple court and stone pagoda in its center. The court was rebuilt for the last time in 1934 after multiple renovations.

The temple's location on the water makes it somewhat isolated, requiring a ferryman to take visitors over the water to the temple. Although a bridge once connected the temple to the mainland, it was washed away in 1615 and never rebuilt for unknown reasons.

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Before the 1990s, water transportation on the Min River connected the village's merchants with customers and other traders from around the world. The Min River rises from the foot of the World Heritage of Mount Wuyi in northwest Fujian, running through the province before flowing into the the East China Sea. The temple's white pagoda was previously used by traders as a landmark to aid in navigation.

In feudal China, many scholars and intellectuals took note of the temple's seclusion and traveled there to prepare for the Imperial Examination, a national exam to select administrative officials in feudal times.

The temple's relative isolation has also allowed for the preservation of ancient calligraphy, such as the writings of Zhu Xi, a Confucian philosopher in the 12th century and Lin Sen, president of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1931 to 1943.

The Western world came across the temple when Scottish documentary photographer John Thomson arrived in Fuzhou to document the temple around 1870.

By that time Fuzhou had been forced to be one of five Chinese ports open for foreign trade under the Treaty of Nanking, which was signed between Britain and the government of the Qing Dynasty in 1842. Under the treaty, the British could trade with anyone they wished in specified ports, including Fuzhou.

The city soon became an important international distribution center for tea and Chinese porcelain. Increasing trade created a lot of work for the river's ferries, but it could not last forever.

Nowadays, the ferries have fallen into disuse with the development of road transportation. The Hongtang highway bridge built in 1991 has eliminated the need to take ferries from the village to Fuzhou.

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"I miss the Jinshan Temple from my childhood memories," says Lin Yiwan, 67, a retired coal miner who works at the temple.

"During the summer, I swam in the river and caught clams," says Lin. "The longan trees along the shore, the old banyan tree on the temple's terrace and the villagers are the things I will never forget."

The sights that make up Lin's memories, however, have largely disappeared. His own home on the river's shore was demolished to make room for the new highway last year. The local government arranged for him to work and live in the temple until a new apartment can be built for him.

Lin cooks for Shi Zonglun, the temple's only monk, as well as does the occasional repair job and cleans the terraces.

Shi Zonglun did not come to Jinshan Temple from Anhui Province north to Fujian until 2010.

"I fell in love with the Temple at the first sight," said Shi Zonglun. "It was karma that has kept me stay."

Apart from following the routine Buddhism proprieties, the 51-year-old monk also plays Buddhism music with his laptop and preaches via text messages.

Wang was not contented for being a Kau Cim interpreter. In 2006 he began to write the history of the ancient building, completing his research in libraries and archives. His finished work "Jinshan Temple: a Pearl on the Water" details the origin and history of the historic temple, complete with accounts from local worshipers and scholars.

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Wang sought the help of many local residents to complete the book, enlisting the aid of a kindergarten teacher, a newspaper editor and several scholars to write an introduction, proofread and type the first draft of the book.

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Brushes with late fame

asiaartshop — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:38:00 +0000

Brushes with late fame
Chinese painting

Bohuslav Reynek didn't enjoy much popular acclaim in his lifetime, but it didn't seem to bother him much.

The Czech poet and painter, a lifelong admirer of Chinese poetry and art, erected for himself in the 20th century what one curator calls "a spiritual space not unlike the one Chinese readers intimately know from the ancient verses of Tao Yuanming (AD 365-427)". Tao's poetry about returning to oneself long enjoyed a favored place in Reynek's library.

At the Reynek exhibition at the National Art Museum of China this month, visitors will be intrigued not only by where the painter's inspiration came from but where it got to. The unabashedly religious images in the first gallery - lots of thorny crowns and crucifixions - are intriguingly abstract and Oriental.

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That combination didn't win him many big gallery showings in 1950s and '60s Czechoslovakia, but a retrospective in Prague last year drew crowds of admirers from all over the country for the reclusive painter now considered a national treasure.

Other pieces in the 100-work show reflect elements of nature, executed in strokes that will be very familiar to a Chinese audience.

Reynek's world view was wide. Embracing art and literature, he became not only a painter and translator (of his favorite German and French poets) but an author in both fields.

This was a deeply impressionable man: In the 1930s, Reynek studied a book of graphic techniques, including Chinese painting, that inspired a lifetime fascination with dry-point and etching. And after reading Suzanne Renaud's first book of poems, he fell in love with her although they'd never met. The shy man married her two years later.

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Reynek loved graphics, poetry and translation but managed to compartmentalize his arts. He said graphics and poetry were two different ways of looking at the same world - and thus, never found it appropriate to illustrate his own books of poems.

The painter's granddaughter, Veronika Reynekova, was at the show's opening last week, and told the mixed European and Chinese crowd that her grandfather would be very proud to see the Beijing show after a lifetime of admiring Chinese art and society. A banner nearby, aptly, read:

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"Mr Reynek, welcome to your country."

Hedge Fund Short-Sellers to Target Wal-Mart Mexico

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Hedge Fund Short-Sellers to Target Wal-Mart Mexico

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The New York Times reported on Saturday that Wal-Mart de Mexico, which is 69 percent owned by Wal-Mart Stories, had orchestrated a widespread bribery campaign in 2005 to win market dominance. The investigative article alleged that senior Wal-Mart [WMT Loading... ()] executives knew about the matter and tried to cover it up.

"I would not consider Wal-Mart shares expensive, but I definitely would not be a buyer at these levels in the 60s. I'm more interested in shorting the Mexico traded 'pure play,'" said private activist investor Daniel Yu, who has presciently shorted such stocks including Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

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"You might find a little short-term pressure on the Wal-Mart stock, but I would not expect any long-term effect," said Kenneth Polcari, managing director at ICAP Equities in New York.

Short interest on the stock is very low. According to Data Explorers, which tracks short interest, just 0.5 percent of all shares are being borrowed for short sales, a very low figure.

John Marshall, a senior markets analyst for the United Food and Commercial Workers capital stewardship program, wonders if there will be lawsuits being brought on behalf of shareholders.

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Marshall is not a Wal-Mart shareholder, but UFCW funds own Wal-Mart shares through broad equity indexes that they participate in on behalf of more than 1 million members.

Wal-Mart de Mexico, better known as Walmex, closed on Friday at 43.06 pesos, after gaining steadily since August of last year when they were just under 30 pesos.

Walmex is due to report results on Monday. Mexico's largest retailer is expected to report a 14.1 percent increase in first-quarter profit, helped by a broad pickup in consumer spending as well as aggressive promotions that boosted sales.

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Argentina moves to take control of nation's largest oil company

lindayu — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:11:19 +0000

President Cristina Fernandez's proposed nationalization of a controlling interest in YPF sparks a diplomatic crisis with Spain, buddha statues,where the firm's biggest shareholder is based.

Argentina's government made official its plan to take control of the nation's largest oil company, YPF, provoking a diplomatic crisis with Spain, where the company's largest shareholder is based.

In a televised address from the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said she would ask the country's congress to approve a law to nationalize a 51% controlling interest of YPF, justifying it by declaring that oil production was in the national interest.

What was not clear Monday was how much the government would pay majority owner Repsol and how soon. Shares of YPF have fallen sharply since rumors of nationalization began circulating several months ago, cutting the value of Repsol's investment by more than half.

Fernandez framed the takeover as a move necessitated by the failure of Repsol and other companies to invest adequately in oil and gas production, resulting in a doubling of imports last year.

But industry analysts blamed government price controls and consumer subsidies that cut company profits and acted as disincentives to invest.

"We are the only country in Latin America, and I might say the world, that doesn't control its natural resources," Fernandez said.

The Spanish government reacted harshly to the planned takeover and hinted it would soon take retaliatory measures. Industry minister Jose Manuel Soria said Monday that the plan was viewed not just as a hostile act against Repsol but "against Spain and the Spanish government as well."

After an emergency Cabinet meeting called by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margalla said the takeover "breaks the climate of cordiality and friendship between Argentina and Spain," laughing Buddha, adding his government would take "clear and convincing measures in coming days." What those measures could include was not clear.

"This decision destroys the climate of confidence necessary to attract investment," Garcia-Margalla told reporters. "It's a terrible decision for Spain, for Argentina and a horrible decision for juridical security which must reign in business."

In her speech to Argentina, Fernandez also declared an emergency "intervention" in YPF management, which over the next 30 days will give her government provisional control of the company until a law is passed and a majority of shares in the company are purchased. The action was necessary to "preserve assets and patrimony" and to ensure fuel supplies, she said.

According to Platts, home decorators,an oil industry publisher, YPF pumps about one-third of the 570,000 barrels of oil that Argentina produces on average daily as well as a quarter of all natural gas.

Repsol acquired its 57% stake in YPF in 1999 for $13 billion, and the company now represents about one quarter of its revenue and oil production worldwide. Repsol said it has invested $11 billion since the acquisition. craft storesThe company is also active elsewhere in Latin America, including in Peru, Brazil and Colombia.

Kraul and d'Alessandro are special correspondents. Kraul reported from Bogota, Colombia, and d'Alessandro from Buenos Aires.

Tohoku – a year after tsunami

lindayu — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:53:55 +0000

I arrived in Kyoto on the JR-West fast haruka train from Osaka's Kansai on a cold 8 degree morning of March 9 to attend Harvard Alumni Association's gathering of Asia Pacific Club Leaders as President of the Harvard Club of Malaysia, leading a delegation of four. Peonies Fan Art, It's been more than 25 years since I was last in Kyoto, Japan's capital in 794 (many residents believe it is still the capital since the Emperor never officially declared that he has taken up residence in Tokyo).

Besides being famous for historic monuments and gardens, I always remember Kabuki the legendary theatre of acting, dancing and singing of unusual eccentricity and social dancing which was founded in Kyoto around 1603. The earliest performance of Kabuki had no significant plot, often disdained as gaudy and cacophonous, but equally lauded as colourful and beautiful. But I love it. For a while at least, I can again breathe and smell the birthplace of Kabuki.

Members of a family pray at a memorial on Hiyori Yama hill in the tsunami-devastated Yuriage district. March 11 marked the first anniversary of a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami in the north-eastern part of Japan, which triggered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station disaster. After a year Japan is still learning to cope with the impact of the disaster. —EPA

Japan remembers

March 11 marked one year since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck parts of the Tohoku (Japan's north-east) region. The catastrophe the worst political and humanitarian crisis faced since the end of WW2, left nearly 20,000 confirmed dead or missing, while nearly 344,000 had to be evacuated. The magnitude-9 earthquake (that struck at 2.46 pm on March 11, 2011) triggered a tsunami (39m-128 ft-tall at its highest point) which crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, and laid waste to entire towns as it came ashore along hundreds of km of Japan's Pacific coastline. An emergency was declared and a 20km no-go-zone around the plant, established. So far, less than 10% of the 22.5 million tonnes of debris left by the tsunami has been cleared. This triple-accident has had a tremendous impact on agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing and tourism. Areas around Fukushima city, with a population of one million, were contaminated as much as 1,000 times the level of background radiation from before the accident.

As I understand it, anxious local residents are dismayed, frustrated that recovery is still only taking baby steps. Already many worry that memories of the related disasters are starting to wear thin. The three disasters destroyed more than 370,000 buildings and damaged roads at nearly 4,000 points. The total damage is estimated at 16.9 trillion yen (US$195bil).

In his book Lessons from the Disaster, Keio Prof H. Rattan Fan Art Takenaka pointed to the government's failure “to act promptly” especially in aiding shattered municipalities because of intense political bickering, thereby preventing works to “reinvent the region's agriculture and creating eco-friendly new coastal municipalities.”

To be fair, there is much to applaud in its reconstruction efforts according to government sources, most of the tsunami zone's roads have been fixed, and landscape once strewn with debris is lined now with tidy plots and a growing number of restored buildings. Several supply chains are back in business and many of the devastated fishing ports are now in service. But the story of towns around the nuclear plant is a painful reminder that this was no ordinary disaster.

The 4th disaster

As I visit, I sense most Japanese I spoke with are increasingly disillusioned about the political establishment's ability to tell the truth and rise to the occasion on March 11 and thereafter, including a deep lack of trust. In his recent book: Genputsu Kiki to Todai Waho, A.Yasutomi irreverently analyses the “parlance of the University of Tokyo” as it was used to couch public statements in optimistic language, avoiding commitment of what had actually happened, on the presumption that the listener is incapable of handling the truth.

They won't call a dangerous thing, dangerous. As a result, Yasutomi observed people learned to mistrust those in authority, so much so that even when they did tell the truth, people couldn't tell. They just assumed they were lying. So it is not surprising that a recent survey found 94% of Fukushima residents didn't believe its prime minister when he said in December 2011 that the nuclear crisis was contained. Or, 80% didn't believe reconstruction activities were “making things better.” The public lack of confidence in the ability of their leaders to help them was considered by one commentator as the “4th disaster” of March 11.

Tea at Entokuin

Nearby Kyoto city centre is Kodaiji Temple. The Harvard group visited Entokuin, a sub-temple there known to have elegant gardens of the Momoyama period. We entered through the main Nagayamon gate designed in the style of a samurai house. Inside, along the walls are four fantastic panel paintings by the renowned Hasegawa Touhaku: Sansuizu-husuma, a landscape of his hometown; Hakuryu, a white dragon; Setugetuka (snow and moon and cherry blossoms) signifying natural beauty; and Syoutikubai (pine tree and bamboo and plum-blossoms) for good luck. The North Garden of the house is sheer elegance. The Kobori Enshuu is of Zen style, built in 1605 by Nene, Kitano Mandokoro (wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the shogun) to mourn her husband. Spread around the side of Entokuin are many big natural stones donated by numerous samurais to honour the shogun.

We sat down (cross legged) in the tea-room of Entokuin to enjoy the Zen garden, portraying in the cold wind naked cherry blossom trees against lush green spring trees with lots and lots of large stones sitting harmoniously on a vast carpet of white-grey stone pebbles so arranged to symbolise ripples of flowing water in the foreground.

As we waited for the tea ceremony (sado: the way of the tea), the clock struck 2.46pm the moment to join the Emperor and the nation, Plum Blossom painting amid makeshift alters in disaster flattened neighbourhoods, to a minute's silence to pay respects and remember the victims of March 11. We did so fully aware their impact extended far beyond: both physically and through changed outlook on life through much soul searching, from a 30,000 anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo, and from across Hokkaido all the way to Kyushu, Shikoku and distant Okinawa. Some trains even stopped to allow people time to pray and reflect. Tea and sweets ended a solemn day of remembrance.

Digital archive

Harvard's Reischauer Institute (HRI) of Japanese Studies faculty has since March 2011 mobilised to develop the Digital Archive (DA). As HRI's T. Gilman puts it: “it's a long-term effort to record and archive the electronic communications after, and in response to, the disaster.”

Clearly, the Tohoku disasters have provoked a global barrage of online blogs, tweets, audio recordings, photographs, videos, news, new websites, articles and other digital documentations and communications. Global interactions online have provided instantaneous updates and reactions way beyond the mass media and outside official control. Yet, March 11 is ongoing and a comprehensive digital record will become indispensable for future history. I am told the DA intends to become an “active, dynamic, ever-expanding public space,” not a mere repository.

Gilman: “Its innovation involves a rich interface that will enable users to curate personalised re-collections and submit their own digital materials.”

It uses an open-source platform, Zeega, which allows users to compile their own collections, provide commentary, and “tag” them with their own keywords, with the option whether or not to make their collections public. The DA project stretches beyond Harvard and its immediate institutional community. It features (i) a personal testimonial page about the disasters and encourages shared experiences; (ii) outreach initiatives through active Japanese and English presence in the social media, Twitter and Facebook; (iii) content partnerships ranging from the US Library of Congress to Japan's National Diet Library (with Yahoo Japan overseeing the project) as well as to local-level organisations in the disaster affected regions.

The amazing thing is that these partnerships link archiving organisations around the world to collaborate and move beyond conventional models to truly bring historical preservation to the digital age.

The aftermath

After a year, the disasters' impact continues to reverberate throughout Japan. In Tohoku, nearly 350,000 are displaced from their homes, with many living in cramped temporary housing, the majority jobless, some without hope, others worried their areas would be declared uninhabitable, as they all face an uncertain future. Amid concerns about Japan's nuclear future, the accident has sharply reduced Japan's energy-supply capabilities, making the Japanese even more energy-saving conscious, a trend that could weigh on the national economy for decades.

Through it all, the Japanese earned the Harvard group's admiration for their composure, discipline and resilience in the face of adversity, while its companies impressed with the speed with which they bounced back. As a result, the economy looks set to return to pre-disaster levels in the second half of 2012, with the help of US$250bil (about Portugal's GDP) set aside for rebuilding the region.

The economy now appears to be on the recovery track because of rising reconstruction spending and incentives to purchase fuel-efficient cars. Japan's core machinery orders rose rapidly in January reflecting on-going rebuilding activity supporting the fragile economy. The weakening yen is also looking up. Manufacturers, however, turned more pessimistic about business conditions in the first quarter of 2012, but expect sentiments to improve in the second quarter of this year with the yen now off record highs, and signs of sustained reconstruction spending.

The Tankan sentiment survey is expected to turn more positive in April. Revisions last week showed GDP inthe fourth quarter of last year contracting by only 0.7% (-2.3% earlier) because of higher capital spending (up 4.8%). Prospects for the first quarter of this year have begun to look brighter. Both International Monetary Fund and World Bank now place growth in Japan in the region of 2% in 2012, somewhat better than a month ago (against Asian Development Bank's 2.5%). Overall activity appears to be improving.

What, then, are we to do?

Watching them up close, the Japanese are a resolutely resilient society. The catastrophic destruction last March had also led to widespread radioactive contamination of life, landscape and livelihoods. This has rightly prompted a radical rethink on the quality of life. Article One of the Basic Law for Reconstruction from the East Japan Great Earthquake says the government must push reconstruction efforts smoothly and promptly in order to “realise the rebirth of Japan full of vitality.”

As it turns out, reconstruction spending is now upping the GDP, but what about raising the quality of life? With landscape as the true life-enhancing resource, the lesson is to ensure the land retains its beauty, tranquillity, diversity and accessibility. Surely, Japan must learn not to neglect the safety and integrity of the people and the land. So, there is a need to rethink and reprioritise development goals Tohoku land must be given back to its rightful owners. People should not simply be silent victims.

Many Japanese believe they have lost their national spirit. In a rudderless nation, it is not surprising for people to feel nostalgic for the return of institutions that helped to produce leaders of the 1868 Meiji Restoration. As activist M. Shimomura acidly puts it: “she wants to put some spine back into the Japanese people.”

I know the Japanese well to appreciate the notion that for men, shirogohan (white rice) is the wife, while ramen is the eternal mistress. Eagle paintingHowever far he strays, a man will eventually come home for his home-cooked white rice. But the rest of the time, his thoughts are with his ramen noodles.

Japan continues to struggle to meet the competitive challenge, especially in high tech and autos. It has to spend time marshalling to lift its animal spirits to stay astride the green technology frontier. Japan can always rely on its “rice” wife (traditional exports), but it needs to spend time with its “ramen” mistress (hitech) to aggressively spin more investments in green IT for long term survival.

Former banker, Dr Lin is a Harvard educated economist and a British Chartered Scientist who now spends time writing, teaching & promoting the public interest. Feedback is most welcome;

Fighter jets roar over Pyongyang as North Korea readies rocket

lindayu — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:45:13 +0000

The five-day window for the launch of a rocket mounted with an observation satellite opened Thursday as North Koreans woke to details about developments at a Workers' Party conference where leader Kim Jong Un ascended to top posts and brought with him a new generation of officials. buddha statues,

His father, Kim Jong Il, was granted the posthumous title of "eternal general secretary" at the special one-day party conference Wednesday. The immortalization of the late leader provided a glimpse into how North Korea will handle the nation's second hereditary succession and indicates he will be honored much in the same way his father, Kim Il Sung, was made "eternal president" following his 1994 death.

Footage on state TV on Thursday showed Kim Jong Un seated at the front of the conference with white statues of his grandfather and a new statue of his father in his trademark khaki work ensemble, one arm on his hip. On Mansu Hill, once the domain of a huge bronze statue of Kim Il Sung, a second covered statue awaits its unveiling.

There was no word Thursday morning on the timing of the controversial rocket launch, which the North has said will take place sometime between Thursday and Monday. In 2009, a similar launch from an east coast site took place on the second day of a five-day window.

The United States, Japan, Britain and others say the launch would constitute a provocation and would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions banning North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs. laughing Buddha,Experts say the Unha-3 carrier is similar to the type of rocket that could be used to fire a missile mounted with a nuclear warhead to strike the U.S. or other targets.

The launch and Kim's formal ascension to top posts comes during a week of events leading up to celebrations Sunday marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of his grandfather, late President Kim Il Sung.

The centennial is a major milestone in the nation Kim founded in 1948, and the streets of the capital, Pyongyang, were awash with new posters, banners and the national flag. The streets were busy with women clad in traditional Korean dresses and children waving red flags.

The Taedong River flyover of fighter jets was practice for a military parade, officials said. North Korea's army celebrates its 80th anniversary later this month.

The expected satellite launch is one of the marquee events this week. North Korean space officials call the launch of the Unha-3 rocket, mounted with an Earth observation satellite, a "gift" to Kim Il Sung. They said Wednesday that the final step of injecting fuel into the three-stage rocket was under way in the coastal hamlet of Tongchang-ri.

"We are injecting fuel as we speak," Paek Chang Ho, chief of the space committee's General Command Center, told reporters given a chance Wednesday to visit the control center outside Pyongyang.

He said the rocket was ready for liftoff as soon as engineers are given the green light. North Korea has informed international aviation, maritime and telecommunications authorities that the launch will take place between Thursday and Monday.

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.

An analysis of recent satellite images shows preparations appear compete, the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said. home decoratorsImages taken by a commercial satellite earlier in the week revealed increased activity at an instrumentation site that would track and collect data from the rocket to be passed to the launch control center.

A mobile radar tracking antenna also was removed from its stowed position, indicating it has been checked out for operations. The analysis for the institute's website, 38 North, also says a mobile optical system appears to have been set up to track the rocket's flight.

The planned launch was a focus of discussions among foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized democracies.

"I think we all share a strong interest in stability on the Korean peninsula, and we will be discussing how best to achieve that as well," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her colleagues Wednesday in Washington.

Paek denied 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 center. "We don't really care what the outside world thinks. This launch is critical to developing our space program and improving our economy."

This satellite launch would be the country's third attempt since 1998. Two previous rockets, also named Unha, were mounted with experimental communications satellites and sent from the east coast.

"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.

Science and technology also are said to be Kim Jong Un's areas of expertise, and Kim is credited with giving guidance during the last launch in 2009.

Kim is considered supreme commander of the armed forces, and is expected to gain other new titles formalizing his position as "supreme leader" of North Korea's people and party, possibly including his father's title of chairman of the National Defense Commission.

On Wednesday, he was made first secretary of the Workers' Party, a newly created post. He also succeeded his late father as chairman of the Central Military Commission, which formulates the party's military policies, and was elevated to standing member of the powerful Political Bureau, a high-level decision-making body.

Party delegates also elected a new generation of younger officials to key posts, including Choe Ryong Hae, a new vice marshal who will join Kim on the powerful Presidium of the Central Committee's Political Bureau.

Ken Gause, a North Korea specialist at CNA, a U.S.-based research organization, said younger members also were promoted at the last party conference in September 2010, when Kim Jong Un was made vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.

"I expect in the near future, craft stores as Kim Jong Un begins to consolidate his power, we will see more," he said in an email interview.

Six other people were named to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, including Jang Song Thaek, who is married to Kim Jong Il's sister, Kim Kyong Hui.

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