North Korea says it will soon launch its reconnaissance satellite into orbit

North Korea affirmed today, one day after the failed launch of a reconnaissance satellite, that the device will be “correctly” put into orbit soon and lashed out at USA and the countries that have protested this plan.

“He reconnaissance satellite of the DPRK will be successfully put into space orbit in the near future and start its mission“, said Kim Yo Jongthe influential sister of the North Korean leader, in a statement published by the state news agency KCNA.

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The acronym DPRK is from Democratic People’s Republic of Koreathe official name of North Korea.

Kim criticized countries that have protested the plans Pyongyang to put a satellite of these characteristics into orbit, especially at USAwhom he accused of acting like “a group of gangsters” that would accuse the regime of “illegal and threatening“even if I tried to launch the satellite”through a balloon”.

“If the PPPDC’s satellite launch is to be particularly censored, the United States and all countries that have already launched thousands of satellites should be denounced.”, he added.

Kim Yo-jong called it “crazy logic“that only your country be censured and accused of violating the resolutions of the UN Security Council by the use of ballistic rocket technology regardless of its purpose, “even if other countries are doing it”.

The sister of the North Korean leader recommended that critical nations review the United Nations Charter (UN) and the provisions of the space treaty of the international organization “before baselessly rejecting and scolding a sovereign state for its satellite launch and its right to space development”.

Kim assured that this behavior is a sign that “the enemies” of his country “fear” that Pyongyang has access to better means of reconnaissance and information, and that this only reinforces its position to dedicate “further development effortsof those means.

The North Korean, who currently serves as deputy department director of the Central Committee of the national single party, reiterated that North Korea has no interest in dialogue with USA given his “hostile politics” towards the regime.

This Thursday’s statement was published a day after Pyongyang unsuccessfully launched a space rocket with a satellite.

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A technical failure in the motors of the transporting vehicle caused the process of detachment of the device to fail and it crashed into the yellow seawest of the Korean peninsula.

The day before was the sixth launch of a satellite by North Korea, which has apparently only managed to put two devices into orbit (in 2012 and 2016), although none of them have ever shown signs of being operational.

The international community considered in each of these cases that the North Korean regime was trying to covertly test ballistic missile technology.

Source: Elcomercio

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