Cause of accident was ‘operational reliability of engine’, says Pyongyang, after two failed attempts last year
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's spy satellite launch. The rocket launch ended in an explosion mid-air, Pyongyang said on Monday.A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's spy satellite launch. The rocket launch ended in an explosion mid-air, Pyongyang said on Monday.North Korea’s latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion, Pyongyang said late Monday, hours after its announcement of a planned launch was criticised by Seoul and Tokyo.
An “expert review concluded that the cause of the accident was the operational reliability of the newly developed liquid oxygen and oil engine,” the statement, carried by the official Korean Central news agency, added., after two failed attempts last year. North Korea claims the Malligyong-1 satellite it put into orbit in November is successfully functioning, but Seoul’s intelligence agency has cast down on this claim.
South Korea’s military said it had detected the launch but that the satellite “is presumed to have exploded in the air”. The US Indo-Pacific Command called the launch a “brazen violation of multiple unanimous UN security council resolutions”, and said in a statement that it “risks destabilising the security situation in the region and beyond”.
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