North Korea has successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite into Earth orbit
North Korea announced that it successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite into Earth orbit. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, North Korea’s official news agency announced that Pyongyang has successfully launched its first spying and reconnaissance satellite into Earth orbit.
based According to this report, this satellite was launched last night from the “Sohai” space base and after 12 minutes, it was successfully placed in the earth’s orbit.
At the moment of the launch of this satellite, Kim Jong Un, the president of this country, is watching This was the launch and after seeing its success, he congratulated all the people and experts involved in the construction and launch of this satellite.
The news agency emphasized that Pyongyang plans to launch more reconnaissance satellites in the near future. Launching more satellites into Earth orbit will improve our ability and capacity to obtain information from areas in North Korea’s neighborhood, particularly in South Korea.
So far, more reports about the performance of this satellite and how long it can be in orbit. The land remains unpublished.
while North Korea has previously made two unsuccessful attempts to launch its first reconnaissance satellite in May and August of this year.
The previous launch operation of this reconnaissance satellite into Earth 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
But North Korean officials in the early hours of yesterday morning They informed the Japanese Coast Guard that they plan to launch a satellite between November 22 (December 1) and December 1 (December 10)..
North Korea has tried several times to launch Earth observation satellites, two of which seem to have been successfully put into orbit and the latest one. It was in 2016.
South Korea is part of suspended the military agreement with North Korea
The other news is that following the launch of this satellite by North Korea, the South Korean authorities announced that they will suspend part of the military agreement with Pyongyang.
Yonhap News Korea The South announced that after this launch, the government of Seoul held an emergency meeting and in this meeting they agreed to suspend a part of the military agreement reached with Pyongyang on September 19, 2018 in order to reduce tensions in the military space.
Today’s session It was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Han Dak-soo, and the decisions made in it will be implemented after the approval of President Yoon Suk-yeol.
The Prime Minister said in this regard that North Korea clearly shows that it agrees with the existing agreement to reduce tension. military and building trust is not adhered to. The military ability of our country to identify dangerous targets and its military capability has been greatly strengthened.
Earlier, the National Security Council of South Korea held a meeting chaired by the president. Those present in this meeting agreed to suspend some provisions of the agreement document with North Korea, especially the third paragraph of Article 1, which refers to no-fly zones.
The president of South Korea said in this regard: Regardless of the outcome of this launch, the purpose of launching this satellite is to strengthen North Korea’s intelligence capabilities against South Korea and improve The performance of this country’s intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Previously, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff asked North Korea to quickly stop preparations for the launch of this reconnaissance satellite.
This headquarters issued a warning in a statement Jadi announced: 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.
South Korea’s former defense minister said that North Korea may launch its first reconnaissance satellite to launch within a week or before the end of November in order to surpass South Korea. South Korea’s first military satellite is scheduled to be launched at the end of this month, on November 30, via the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also announced that Tokyo will take all necessary measures to face any Unexpected circumstances follow North Korea’s plan to launch a reconnaissance satellite..
Kishida He stated that in the event of any unforeseen circumstances, Japan’s defense system, including Aegis destroyers and air defense missiles PAC-3 in preparation They are perfect.
He admitted to reporters even though Pyongyang’s goal of launching a Be it a satellite, the use of ballistic missile technology is a violation of a series of UN Security Council resolutions. This is an issue that greatly affects our national security.
Publisher | Tasnim News |