Xinhua News Agency, May 17, according to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on 17 May, Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of the Democratic people's Republic of Korea (WPK) and state chairman of the DPRK, directed the work of the DPRK's special preparatory committee for satellite launch on the 16th. Kim Jong-un approved the future action plan of the non-permanent satellite launch preparatory committee.