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North Korea said it carried out the final tests of a military spy satellite, publishing a pair of black-and-white overhead images of South Korea’s capital region in an attempt to show the device worked.
The country announced the breakthrough via state media, a day after South Korea said its rival lobbed at least two suspected medium-range ballistic missiles through space and into the sea. While North Korea described a single rocket launch with a similar flight path, it said the vehicle released a demonstration satellite carrying various cameras and transmitters.
The pictures released by the Korean Central News Agency covered much of Seoul and the adjacent port of Incheon and included an area where South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office is located. They had a resolution of 20 metres, KCNA said, far less detailed than the 0.5 metres standard that experts say is typical for modern military
applications. “The technology looks like what South Korea had in the start of its satellite development in 1990s,†said Bang Hyo-choong, who teaches spacecraft flight dynamics and control at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
The authenticity of the images couldn’t immediately be confirmed. Leader Kim Jong-un has gone to great lengths to convince the world of his military achievements, apparently launching an older intercontinental ballistic missile earlier this year to pass off the failure of a new modelin a video.