Kim Jong Un looks at the first spy satellite. He also threatens with his finger

The North Korean leader revealed his intentions a month ago to the North Korean Space Agency. Kim Jong Un announced then that his country would put into orbit a network of spy satellites that would strengthen Pyongyang’s intelligence capabilities, and the first device in the series is almost ready for launch. Now it seems that the dictator is close to his goal, or at least wants us to get the impression.

Kim Jong Un watched a North Korean spy satellite

Now KCNA (Korean Central News Agency, or rather propaganda tube of the DPRK) reports that on Tuesday the country’s leader went with his daughter to an unspecified laboratory to admire the effects of the work of North Korean scientists. In the photos provided by KCNA, we see Kim in the company of researchers and a device covered with gold material, which is probably the main part of the satellite. The object in the photographs has been blurred, but it resembles a satellite that a month ago at the North Korean Space Agency. North Korea’s news agency said Kim Jong Un met with a “satellite launch preparation committee” during an inspection of the facility on Tuesday. He was also supposed to approve the “action plan” of this committee.

Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the satellite itself and the details of its launch. Pyongyang says it is the first in a series of reconnaissance satellites that will aid Korean intelligence. However, it does not specify how the Koreans from the northern part of the peninsula are to launch the vehicle into orbit and when they intend to do it. The leader of the DPRK did not reveal the launch date, and only confirmed in April that the satellite would fly into space without delay “on the planned date”. From December to April, the country was supposed to test the satellite’s prototypes. Very low-quality black and white photos of Seoul were published at the time, but experts in the south had doubts about their authenticity,

The British newspaper adds that the presence of spy satellites in the sky is an extremely important element in the event of a possible nuclear strike. North Korea declared itself a “nuclear power” last year and refuses to talk about denuclearization, which the United States and South Korea have primarily sought. Kim Jong Un also used a visit to the laboratory to accuse the two countries of fomenting the conflict. He called the actions of his neighbor and the US “confrontational movements” and announced the exercise of “the right of self-defense”.