By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, April 9 (Reuters) - The United Nations on Thursday contradicted comments by a North Korean diplomat, saying Pyongyang had not yet notified the world body that it had launched a satellite into orbit as U.N. rules require. North Korean Deputy U.N. Ambassador Pak Tok Hun had said he believed Pyongyang had already registered what it says was a satellite it launched into space on Sunday under the 1976 U.N. Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, which North Korea has signed. But U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas told reporters that that the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs had received no notification of any North Korean satellite . "As of today, they have not received any information from DPRK (North Korea) under the Outer Space Treaty nor the registration convention with regard to the launch," she said. North Korea signed both treaties on March 10. The registration convention calls for the United Nations to be given details of the object launched "as soon as practicable." The United States, Japan and South Korea say North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, not a satellite, in violation of Security Council resolution 1718, imposed in 2006 after North Korea's nuclear test, which ban the firing of such missiles or further nuclear tests by Pyongyang. The U.S. military said no part of the Taepodong-2 rocket entered orbit, despite Pyongyang's claim it carried a satellite now transmitting data and revolutionary music as it circled the Earth. Some diplomats have said that North Korea attached a dummy satellite to the missile. "I think we did it," Pak said on Tuesday when asked whether his government had registered a satellite. "We have already made it clear that we launched that, and we have acceded to the appropriate international conventions on that," he said. "We did everything before we did that."(Editing by Anthony Boadle)
Opposition supporters shout slogans during a rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi April 9, 2009. At least 60,000 Georgians rallied on Thursday at the start of a campaign ...
