SEOUL — South Korea's first home-grown military spy satellite is ready to begin its 'full-fledged' mission of monitoring the North, Seoul's arms procurement agency said Wednesday.
SEOUL — South Korea's first home-grown military spy satellite is ready to begin its 'full-fledged' mission of monitoring the North, Seoul's arms procurement agency said Wednesday.The satellite, launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in December last year, is part of an intensifying space race on the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang claimed it launched its own military eye in the sky a month earlier that year.
EPA-EFE/JEON HEON-KYUNNuclear-armed North Korea's November satellite launch, which Seoul claims was aided by Moscow in exchange for supplying weapons for Russia's war in Ukraine, drew international condemnation.Pyongyang is barred by successive rounds of UN resolutions from tests using ballistic technology, and analysts say there is significant technological overlap between space launch capabilities and the development of ballistic missiles.
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