The Chinese newspaper People's Daily said the DPRK launched the satellite on Wednesday all of a sudden and announced that it succeeded in putting the satellite into its orbit.

It went on:

As a sovereign state the DPRK has not given up its right to launch satellites. That is why there is no need to be surprised by its sudden launch of the satellite in particular.

Such rapid and significant adjustment of the DPRK's satellite launch was no means a self-willed action.

The DPRK has some sensibility toward the pressure of the international community and judged in advance the consequences to be entailed. When the warship "Cheonan" sinking incident and Yonphyong Island shelling case occurred in 2010 the international community thought the situation went to the brink of war. But the situation on the Korean Peninsula was not beyond control.

This time, too, the situation on the peninsula will not be out of control.

An associate researcher at the China Institute of International Studies said that the DPRK leads south Korea in the space field. At a time when south Korea postponed the launch of satellite Naro the DPRK successfully launched its satellite to prove that its social system is advantageous and south Korea is not in a position to solve such high technological problems, the associate researcher added.

The defense minister of Japan at a press conference referred to the DPRK's satellite launch. He showed understanding that certainly the DPRK made overall progress not only in the technology for launch but in the technology regarding the main body.

Personages of different social standings in the U.S. were stunned by the successful launch of the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 in the DPRK.

A former official of the U.S. State Department said that the DPRK demonstrated the steadfast will to fully carry out the behests of Kim Jong Il, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, through the satellite launch in the run-up to the first anniversary of his demise.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command made public a statement shortly after the satellite launch in the DPRK, saying that the DPRK successfully launched Unha-3 rocket and it looked successful in putting an object into space, according to the results of observation system's pursuit.

An American space expert said north Korea has succeeded in putting a satellite into space. Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said that the Unha-3 rocket launched early Wednesday morning delivered the satellite into orbit and it was a perfect success for north Korea.

An analyzer of the Land Institute of the U.S., national defense and security research body, said that it was something surprising in the aspect of time control and showed that they are master hands at assembling of missile.

A vice-director of Stanford University of the U.S. said that the DPRK has channeled efforts into the development of nuclear and rocket technology to build a thriving nation.