North Korea announced Saturday it will hold an annual parliamentary session next month around the time of a planned rocket launch that has sparked widespread condemnation.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the Supreme People's Assembly would convene on April 13. Analysts say the parliament will likely promote the country's leader,
The news agency also carried a statement by the North's Foreign Ministry spokesman, who said launching a satellite "is an exercise of an independent and legitimate right in accordance with... international laws."