SEOUL: South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country has finished building its first military spy satellite and gave the green light for its launch, state media said Wednesday.
The report of its completion comes about a week after Pyongyang launched what it said was a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, marking a major breakthrough in its banned weapons programmes.Analysts have said there is significant technological overlap between the development of ICBMs and space launch capabilities.Kim gave instructions on Tuesday to 'make sure that the military reconnaissance satellite No.
In December 2022, North Korea said it had carried out an 'important final-stage test' for the development of a spy satellite, which it said it would complete by April this year.At the time, experts in South Korea quickly raised doubts about the results, saying the quality of the black-and-white images released by North Korea — purportedly taken from a satellite — was poor.
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