North Korea says its new spy satellite took photos of US bases in Guam

North Korea says he obtained photos of US military bases on the island of Guamat the Pacific Oceantaken by its first spy satellite, launched the day before aboard a space rocket.

The state agency KCNA reported that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Unmountain range “photos of the air base in Andersonfrom the port of Apra (where a naval base is located) and other areas of important US troop enclaves, taken from the sky over the island Guamat the Pacificand received at 9:21 am (0.21 GMT) on November 22.

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Kim He would have seen the images during his visit to the general control center of the National Aerospace Technology Administration (CREAM) in Pyongyangwhere it was reported that the satellite Malligyong-1 It will officially begin operating on December 1st, after undergoing adjustments in the coming years. “7 to 10 days”.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Pyongyang General Control Center of the Korean National Directorate of Aerospace Technology, a day after the launch of a rocket carrying the ‘Malligyong-1’ reconnaissance satellite in Pyongyang. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS/AFP) (STR/)

KCNA posted a photo of Kim visiting the aforementioned center in the company of the deputy director of the Department of Munitions Industry, Kim Jong-sikone of the main figures of the North Korean missile programand another snapshot of the facility in which only general control panels can be seen, which were also blurred before publication.

In turn, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) South Korea explained in a statement that, after carefully analyzing its trajectory and other factors, it estimates that “the satellite appears to be in orbit”, although he added that “Determining whether the satellite is operating normally will take time as additional analysis is required.”.

If the regime’s claims are true, North Korean surveillance capabilities would have taken an important leap with the deployment of this satellite that would now allow it to detect, for example, troop movements in the northeast of the country. Asia at different times, from the device, located in a polar orbitwould circle the Earth more than once a day.

Kim highlighted the importance of monitoring American movements and recalled that in the last few hours washington deployed in the south of the peninsula both the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson like him USS Santa Fe submarineintegrated into the same attack group, within the scope of the deterrence mechanism agreed with Seoul.

The North Korean Marshal “He also emphasized the need to launch several more reconnaissance satellites, placing them in different orbits and operate them in a practical and combined way”a plan that CREAM said it will increase during the plenary of the unique North Korean party scheduled for the last days of December.

Source: Elcomercio