North Korea spy satellite explodes in flight as latest launch fails

autotldr Bot , 2 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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North Korea’s latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit ended in a mid-air explosion, Pyongyang said late Monday, hours after its announcement of a planned launch was criticised by Seoul and Tokyo.

An “expert review concluded that the cause of the accident was the operational reliability of the newly developed liquid oxygen and oil engine,” the statement, carried by the official Korean Central news agency, added.

Putting a spy satellite into orbit has long been a top priority for Kim Jong-un’s regime, and it claimed to have succeeded in November, after two failed attempts last year.

Seoul claims Kim received Russian technical assistance for that launch, in return for sending containers of weapons to Moscow for use in Ukraine.

Pyongyang had notified Japan earlier on Monday that it was planning to put another satellite into orbit, prompting criticism from both Seoul and Tokyo, which urged Kim to call it off.

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol said Monday that another satellite launch would “undermine regional and global peace and stability”.

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Moonrise2473 , 2 months ago

Putting a spy satellite into orbit has long been a top priority for Kim Jong-un’s regime

One would say that a priority for a communist country is to serve basic needs to the population instead of let them starve in the dark

Varyk , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

So do they not tell their population each time they build a satellite in case it fails like the ones before it, and they’re just waiting for the moment that one does work so they can en answer?

Or do they announce that it worked and not show any evidence?

Or do they say the Americans sabotaged it?

North Korean’s media stranglehold on its people is morbidly fascinating.