South Korea’s military said it had retrieved the wreckage of a North Korean spy satellite that plunged into the sea in May after a botched launch and found it had no meaningful military use as a reconnaissance satellite. | Reuters
It is the first time South Korea has secured a satellite launched by the North, South Korean military experts said.
Yang Uk, a fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, also said “the resolution of the optical device loaded on the satellite was not suitable for military use”. The nuclear-armed North has pursued a satellite launch program since the 1990s and has said it would launch its first reconnaissance satellite to boost monitoring of U.S. military activities.In 2012 and 2016, North Korea launched objects that still remain in orbit. Pyongyang said they are observation satellites, but there has been no confirmation they were functioning or transmitting signals.
Pyongyang rejects such criticism as an infringement of its sovereign right to self-defense and space exploration.
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