The North Korean Spy in Space.
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.
During a visit to North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration on Tuesday, he also called on staff to"firmly establish the satellite intelligence-gathering capability by deploying several reconnaissance satellites on different orbits in succession". On Tuesday, he said gaining this reconnaissance technology was a"primary task to be indispensably fulfilled" because of what he described as threats and aggression from the United States and South Korea.
Pyongyang has not provided a launch date, though on Tuesday, Kim said the satellite would be sent up"at the planned date". Even so, the latest announcement should be taken seriously, said Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
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