2023-08-23 01:43:38
Is Pyongyang really aiming for the stars? North Korea has announced the launch of a satellite in the coming days. A project very frowned upon by the United States and South Korea, which denounced an “illegal” company.
“We urge North Korea to refrain from any further illegal activity and call on Pyongyang to engage in a serious and sustained diplomatic approach,” a US spokesperson said. At the same time, the Japanese Coast Guard issued an alert for a “satellite rocket” launch at sea.
In fact, the United States and South Korea suspect Pyongyang of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile, which features technologies similar to satellite launchers, which they say would amount to “a flagrant violation of Security Council resolutions”. of ONU “. “No matter what excuses North Korea tries to make, it cannot justify this illegal act,” Seoul said in a statement.
A first unsuccessful launch in May
North Korea, for its part, has made the development of a military spy satellite a priority in order to “deal with the dangerous military actions of the United States and its vassals”. But on May 31, a first launch attempt saw a satellite crash into the Yellow Sea, after triggering air alerts in South Korea and the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
The new launch coincides with the start of U.S.-South Korean military exercises that kicked off on Monday and are expected to last until August 31. As such, Pyongyang has warned of the risk of a “thermonuclear” war on the peninsula, further fueling decades of tension over atomic weapons in the Far East.
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