While the game was just confirmed for release in December of 2002 for the Japan market, the game has seemingly been delayed until June, 2003 in the North American market.
We're still waiting for offical word of the delay from Nintendo, and it's possible that this is out-of-date information. However, it wouldn't be the first time a localization project with a great deal of text took six months or more. Animal Crossing's localization was a nine-month job, but Animal Crossing has much more text than a Zelda title.
