North Korea says it will soon have its own spies in the skies capable of seeing what its enemies are doing.
Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency made that claim this week, reporting that the North has tested its first spy satellite and will have one of them up for real by April. The KCNA report was the latest word on North Korean progress in developing missiles and nuclear warheads as “defense” against its enemies, the U.S., Japan and South Korea., scoffed at claims that the cameras weren’t as good as advertised by the North Koreans.
Coincidentally or not, the war games came after the North claimed its "important, final-stage test of rockets Sunday was part of its military reconnaissance satellite project and made public those two photos, presumed to be taken from a mock satellite.Earlier, the North, under the watchful gaze of leadertested what it called a “high-thrust solid-fuel motor” designed to get missiles out of hiding and onto the launch pad before enemy satellites see them.
Japan still isn’t talking about developing nuclear warheads, but it’s definitely breaking the constraint against spending more than one percent of its $5 trillion annual GNP on its euphemistically named “Self-Defense Forces” and possibly shedding the famous Article 9 of its post-war “Peace Constitution.” Dictated in the American military occupation under General Douglas MacArthur, Article 9 bans the Japanese from sending troops overseas or waging war at all.
North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency reported in detail on the test of the satellite, which apparently was launched by one of two intermediate-range missiles fired by the North on Sunday. They traveled about 340 miles, landing far off the North’s east coast. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post quoted Lie Il-wook with the Korea Defense Network as deriding the test as “too crude to be used for any purpose.” He noted the KCNA report said the satellite could see images on the ground of about 20 meters in size while U.S. satellites can make out the numbers of the license plates of motor vehicles.
The U.S. has claimed North Korea earlier launched satellites to test their systems for long-range missiles, which the North has test-fired twice in recent months.
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