South Korea requests North Korea to stop launching reconnaissance satellites

According to Webangah News quoted by Tasnim News agency, Yonhap news agency reported that South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff asked North Korea to immediately stop preparations for launching a reconnaissance satellite.

The headquarters announced in a statement by issuing a serious warning: North Korea should quickly stop the ongoing preparation operation to launch a reconnaissance satellite. to stop If North Korea continues the launch operation despite our warnings, our armed forces will take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of the country’s people.

Previous South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik has said that North Korea may launch its first reconnaissance satellite within a week or before the end of November in order to gain an advantage over South Korea. South Korea’s first military satellite is going to be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in America via the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

While Korea The North has already made two unsuccessful attempts to launch its first reconnaissance satellite in May and August of this year. Pyongyang then announced that it would launch the satellite again in October, but this has not yet happened.

The previous operation of launching a reconnaissance satellite of this country into the earth’s orbit on May 31 of this year failed due to a malfunction in the start of the engine of the second platform. And its remains fell into the sea.

Pyongyang had informed Japan and the International Maritime Organization two days before this launch that it plans to launch a satellite between 31 May to June 11 to evaluate US military activities.

At the same time South Korea, The United States and other countries have condemned the failed operation of launching a satellite by Pyongyang, which is not allowed to be carried out according to the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, and demanded to stop such actions.

This is the sixth attempt of this country to launch a satellite equipped with nuclear materials and also the first satellite of this type this year 2016 It was supposed to Be Pyongyang’s first spy satellite in Earth orbit.

North Korea has repeatedly tried to launch Earth observation satellites, two of which appear to have been successfully launched into orbit, the last being in 2016.

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