SEOUL: North Korea said its attempt to launch a new military reconnaissance satellite ended in failure on Monday (May 27) when a newly developed rocket engine exploded in flight. The at
The attempt came just hours after Pyongyang issued a warning that it would try to launch a satellite by Jun 4, in what would have been its second spy satellite in orbit.
The JCS said it detected a large amount of debris from the rocket in the sea just two minutes after launch. The United States condemned the launch,"which incorporated technologies that are directly related to the DPRK's ballistic missile program and took place in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions", a State Department spokesperson said.a rare three-way summit in SeoulSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had called on North Korea not to go ahead with the launch.
The North's first bid to launch the new Chollima-1 satellite rocket, on May 31 last year, ended after a failure in the second stage. State media blamed that setback on an unstable and unreliable new engine system and fuel. North Korea's space authorities had described the August failure after the rocket booster experienced a problem with its third stage as"not a big issue" in terms of the rocket system's overall reliability.
The successful November launch was the first after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a rare trip abroad in September and toured Russia's most modern space launch centre, where President Vladimir Putin promised to help Pyongyang build satellites.
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