North Korea assured that the spy satellite launched by the country a week ago captured images of the US Presidency, the White House, the Pentagon and other important US defense facilities.
The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, visited the general control center of the North Korean National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) in the capital, from where the satellite mission is coordinated, this Monday on KCNA .
According to North Korea’s state news agency, Kim saw in the center images of the White House, the Pentagon, Norfolk, the main US naval base, and the neighboring Newport News shipyards, where US aircraft carriers and submarines are built.
The images were captured around 11:35 p.m. on Monday (2:35 p.m. in Lisbon) and “four North American nuclear aircraft carriers and one British aircraft carrier were detected in the photographs of the Norfolk naval base and the Newport News shipyards,” he stated. . KCNA.
Kim received a briefing on preparations for the “Malligyong-1” military observation satellite to become operational ahead of the originally planned date of Dec. 1, the agency said.
North Korea, which claimed to have also obtained images of US military bases in the South and on the island of Guam, has not so far published any photographs captured by the satellite.
After two failed attempts, in May and August, Pyongyang managed to launch a spy satellite into orbit on November 21. South Korea confirmed Thursday that the launch was successful.
Seoul recovered the remains of one of the failed launches and stated at the time that the resolution of the satellite images that North Korea tried to put into orbit was very poor, although without providing concrete evidence.
NATA said it will present at the next plenary session of the North Korean single party, scheduled for late December, a plan to launch several more military observation satellites soon.
On Monday, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations (UN) affirmed, in a rare appearance before the Security Council, that the launch of the spy satellite was a “legitimate” act of self-defense against American “threats.” “.
Western powers Japan and South Korea condemned the launch, as did UN Secretary-General António Guterres, pointing out that the use of ballistic missile technologies violates Security Council resolutions.
“No other nation in the world is in such a critical security situation” as North Korea, said Ambassador Kim Song, lamenting that other countries are not subject to the same restrictions.
“A belligerent country, the United States, is threatening us with nuclear weapons. It is the legitimate right of North Korea, as another belligerent party, to develop, test, manufacture and possess weapons systems equivalent to those that the United States possesses or is developing for us.” , he added.
Source: TSF
