2023-07-05 05:54:14
Updated Wednesday, July 5, 2023 – 05:54
The space vehicle crashed in the Yellow Sea, about 50 kilometers west of the South Korean coast and about 180 kilometers southwest of Seoul, due to a misfiring of the second stage rocket engines.
South Korean soldiers with part of the rescued rocket
South Korea announced Wednesday that it has found The North Korean satellite that crashed in the Yellow Sea (called the West Sea in the two Koreas) on May 31 due to a failure in the rocket that was to put it into orbit and that, contrary to what Pyongyang maintains, “has no military utility.”
The search and recovery operations for the remains of the Chollima-1 rocket and the satellite it carried, in which divers from the South Korean army have participated for 36 days, concluded today, according to a statement reported by the South Korean Defense Ministry, which has congratulated for having “rescued a large amount of wreckage even in a difficult operating environment.”
“Significant parts of the North Korean space launch vehicle and satellite were recovered through this operation and, as a result of careful analysis by South Korean and American experts, It has been assessed that it has no military utility as a reconnaissance satellite,” the text states.
On May 31, North Korea launched from the base of Sohae (northwest of the country) a new type of space rocket the Chollima-1, with what it claims is the regime’s first military reconnaissance satellite, the Malligyong-1.
However, the spacecraft crashed into the Yellow Sea, about 50 kilometers west of the South Korean coast and about 180 kilometers southwest of Seoul, by a engine misfire of the second phase of the rocket, according to what the North Korean media themselves indicated.
The South Korean army began a big operation in the area to try to recover the fragments of the rocket and the satellite -something that Chinese army ships also did in those waters- and on June 15 he managed to refloat a huge fragment of the rocket.
When Pyongyang launched a first test device last December that took photos from space of Seoul and the neighboring South Korean city of Incheon, South Korean experts already indicated that the images published by the regime they had nowhere near the resolution of a reconnaissance satellite.
These claims drew an angry response from Kim Yo-young, leader’s sister Kim Jong-un, from whom many also foresee an angry reply to the message issued today by the South Korean army.
After the failure of the denuclearization negotiations in 2019, tension has risen again on the Korean peninsula, with Pyongyang rejecting any offer of dialogue and carrying out a record number of missile tests and Seoul and Washington resuming their great joint maneuvers and deploying US strategic assets periodically and in rotation in the region.
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