The North is upgrading its space centre to accommodate the increased demands of leader Kim Jong Un. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The North is upgrading its space centre to accommodate the increased demands of leader Kim Jong Un, who boasted last month the country had completed its first military reconnaissance satellite and called for its launch into orbit to monitor US forces and their allies in Asia.
All this is raising alarm 195km away in Seoul. South Korea is working on a rocket programme of its own, with the first deployment of commercial satellites into orbit scheduled for Wednesday aboard the locally made Nuri rocket. “One of the things satellites are used for is targeting nuclear weapons,” Prof Silbey said. “It’s worth being really nervous about North Korea having this kind of high-end capacity.”
While the country is barred by United Nations Security Council resolutions from conducting ballistic missile tests, Pyongyang has long claimed it is entitled to have a civilian space programme for satellite launches. “The potential threat from North Korea would notionally remain the same, but with better or more up-to-date imagery, that threat would be more refined – and more effectively deployed – if used,” he said.
South Korea’s expected launch of its home-grown Nuri rocket on May 24, meanwhile, comes as it seeks to advance its civilian space programme. Shortly after the news of the North’s surveillance satellite, South Korea’s Agency for Defence Development announced that it would be building one, too.
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