North Korea’s failure to launch a spy satellite

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, North Korea announced that the country’s attempt to launch a military spy satellite with new fuel failed and this satellite exploded in the air minutes after launch and fell into the Yellow Sea. fell.

According to this report, although the state media North Korea has not released the name of the satellite or an image of it, but analysts said it was completely different from the satellite that Pyongyang successfully put into orbit in November last year.

According to a report published by the North Korean state news agency, initial analysis shows that the new development engine Liquid oxygen fuel was found to be one of the reasons for the explosion of this satellite, but other possible reasons are also under investigation. Meanwhile, US officials and independent analysts believe that The previous satellite seems to have been developed based on a system for intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, which generally does not use liquid oxygen as fuel because freezing temperatures are required to maintain it.

Also, some analysts questioned why Pyongyang changed the type of engine in this satellite. A senior South Korean researcher believes that this will allow Pyongyang to separate its civilian space program from its ballistic missile program, which is under UN Security Council sanctions.

In the meantime, Yonhap news agency quoted a senior South Korean defense official who asked not to be named. It was reported that Russian experts went to this country to help North Korea in the launch of space satellites.   Pyongyang announced the launch of this satellite.

Also after After the explosion of this satellite, North Korea did not immediately announce the news of its relaunch, as in previous failures in launching rockets or satellites. Experts believe that since the problem of this satellite is in the type of engine fuel, the next launch will take at least 3 to 6 months.   

After this launch, South Korean, American and Japanese authorities in In a phone call with each other, they strongly condemn this launch and consider it a clear violation of the UN Security Council resolutions prohibiting the use of ballistic missile technology by Pyongyang.

This launch took place hours after the leaders of South Korea, Japan and China held a trilateral meeting in Seoul. . Accordingly, Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Seok-yol held this meeting, one of the focal points of which was to deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile threats.  

According to this report, the countries of China, South Korea and Japan are trying to resolve mutual suspicions in the midst of competition between Beijing and Washington and tensions over Taiwan .

This launch while North Korea successfully put a reconnaissance satellite into orbit earlier in November. .

Pyongyang on November 21 last year the first The spying and reconnaissance satellite was successfully launched into the earth’s orbit and this satellite was successfully placed in the earth’s orbit after 12 minutes.North Korea calls this spy satellite a “new era of space power” This country had described.

North Korea has previously made two unsuccessful attempts to launch its reconnaissance satellite in May and August of last year. The previous launch operation of the reconnaissance satellite into the 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.

Previously North Korea’s state news agency reported that the country plans to upgrade its military power in 2024, 3 send a military surveillance satellite into Earth orbit and start building military drones. 

Korea The North has repeatedly attempted to launch Earth observation satellites, two of which appear to have successfully entered orbit, the last being in 2016..

North Korea since 2006, because of its nuclear program and its ballistic missiles are under many UN sanctions. These sanctions include banning the development and expansion of ballistic missiles. This technology was used to launch Pyongyang’s first spy satellite into Earth orbit and has been used to test dozens of ballistic missiles over the past 20 months. America has repeatedly warned that Pyongyang is ready to conduct its seventh nuclear test.