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North Korea says it plans to launch satellites to monitor U.S. and its allies
In coming years, the reconnaissance satellites will provide real-time information on military actions by other countries, state media reported leader Kim Jong Un as saying.
In this undated photo provided by the North Korean government on Thursday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the National Aerospace Development Administration.

While inspecting North Korea’s National Aerospace Development Administration, Kim said “a lot” of military reconnaissance satellites would be put into sun-synchronous polar orbit in the period of a five-year plan announced last year, state news agency KCNA reported.


“He noted that the purpose of developing and operating the military reconnaissance satellite is to provide the armed forces of the DPRK with real-time information on military actions against it by the aggression troops of the U.S. imperialism and its vassal forces in South Korea, Japan and the Pacific,” the news agency said.


Satellite images show renewed activity at shuttered North Korea missile site
North Korea appears to be preparing to launch a reconnaissance satellite, which could prove as controversial as the nuclear-armed country’s weapons tests because they use the same banned ballistic missile technology, experts say.

North Korea says it conducted two tests of satellite systems on Feb. 27 and March 5. Authorities in South Korea, Japan and the United States says the tests involved launches of ballistic missiles.

The launches drew international condemnation and the U.S. military said on Thursday it had increased surveillance and reconnaissance collection in the Yellow Sea.



The United States also said it had heightened its ballistic missile defense readiness after a “significant increase” in North Korean missile tests.

Kim defended the satellite work as not only about gathering information but protecting North Korea’s sovereignty and national interests, exercising its legitimate rights to self-defense, and elevating national prestige, KCNA reported.

“He stressed that this urgent project for perfecting the country’s war preparedness capacity by improving our state’s war deterrent is the supreme revolutionary task, a political and military priority task to which our Party and government attach the most importance,” KCNA said.



The United States and its allies have condemned previous North Korean space launches as violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions that have imposed sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs.


North Korea has not tested a nuclear weapon or its long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) since 2017, but has suggested it could resume such tests because talks with the United States are stalled.

Its latest flurry of missile launches could be groundwork for a return to ICBM and nuclear bomb tests this year, the U.S. Directorate of National Intelligence said in its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment released this week.

A satellite launched into orbit would be the first since 2016.

Recent suborbital launches, which most likely used road-mobile medium-range ballistic missiles, appeared designed to “pop the key components of an imagery reconnaissance satellite up to operational altitudes for a few minutes of testing,” 38 North, a U.S.-based monitoring group, said in a report.

Such components, including satellite stabilization, the imaging payload, and data transmission may have failed in previous tests and therefore required additional testing, the group said.

“It remains to be seen how capable any North Korean imagery satellite would be, the frequency of launches, or how many such satellites might be maintained in orbit at any one time — all key indicators of the actual military significance of such satellites,” 38 North said.

Regardless, North Korea clearly sees this capability as having propaganda value and showcasing its technological prowess and effective leadership, it added.

World war z

Says a swollen bread,do anything funny and watch what's going to happen.
You want to monitor USA indeed.
Why not take care of your people and allow them live like humans instead of flexing unnecessary military might.
What a big joker, someone give the baby some little attention.

Violence

Comradewhy:
Says a swollen bread,do anything funny and watch what's going to happen.
You want to monitor USA indeed.
Why not take care of your people and allow them live like humans instead of flexing unnecessary military might.
What a big joker, someone give the baby some little attention.

the man doesn't care much about the welfare of his people, his biggest priority is building a powerful military

God1000:
the man doesn't care much about the welfare of his people, his biggest priority is building a powerful military

That's his problem,it doesn't change the fact that he is not contributing anything meaningful to the world.
NK is a dead ground.

Comradewhy:
That's his problem,it doesn't change the fact that he is not contributing anything meaningful to the world.
NK is a dead ground.

you are right, it is a brutal dictatorship that denies North Koreans their inalienable rights

ChangetheChange:

Werey man, that can't feed his country

I remember when Donald trump called him a rocket Man

5 star COMRADE

Despite all the sanctions, where is North Korea getting their advance technology from?

Good luck to them

Wangzhang:
Despite all the sanctions, where is North Korea getting their advance technology from?

North Korea is an advanced country

The sanctions just slowed them down

If not for their agreesive nature towards south Korea, they would have gone far

They are just like Russia too

Just that you can't eat weapons