North Korea said its second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed on Thursday, three months after the
Leader Kim Jong Un has made the development of a military eye in the sky a top priority, with his nuclear-armed country claiming it is a necessary counterbalance to growing regional activity by US forces.
The South Korean military said it detected the launch of the purported space rocket at around 3:50 am and that it flew over the Yellow Sea. It added that a search and retrieval operation for the wreckage had begun. The launch was first signalled by the Japanese government, which called it “extremely problematic” and issued a brief warning to residents of the southern Okinawa region to take cover.
North Korea is banned under multiple UN resolutions from testing ballistic technology, which is used for both missiles and space rockets. Relations between the two Koreas are at their lowest point in years, and diplomacy is stalled after failed attempts to discuss Pyongyang’s denuclearisation. “Kim Jong Un has said that they are critical for preemptive strikes — recall that North Korea’s new nuclear law passed last year enshrined the right to use nuclear weapons preemptively,” he said.– ‘Space is hard’ –In May, Pyongyang launched what it described as its first military reconnaissance satellite, but the rocket — named “Chollima-1” after a mythical horse that often features in official propaganda — plunged into the sea minutes after liftoff.
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