The state television North Korean broadcast today for the first time the recording of the launch of the spy satellite that the Asian country managed to put into orbit around the Earth last Tuesdaywhich has further increased the discord between the two Koreas.

Until today KCTV had only released photos of the launchwhich occurred Tuesday evening, an hour before North Korea notified maritime authorities to restrict navigation in areas where remnants of the projectile could fall.

North Korea launches military reconnaissance satellite

The content airing today first shows how the Chollima-1 rocket is placed upright on the new launch pad built in the southeast of the Sohae space base (northwest of the country, about 50 kilometers from the border with China).

It also shows new images from the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) launch control center, although the technicians’ monitors are explicitly blurry.

In turn, the images of the ignition and subsequent night take-off of Chollima-1 allow us to examine the apparent operation of the rocket’s first stage, which consists of four liquid fuel engines, believed to be based on the Soviet RD-250 designas well as the Hwasong-17, North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with the longest potential range.

The North Korean launch was responded to by Seoul with the partial suspension of a 2018 bilateral military agreement aimed at easing tension around the border between the two countriestechnically still at war.

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Pyongyang responded today by saying so completely suspends the fulfillment of the agreement and that it will resume all its military operations around the rift.

For its part, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said today that it is considering this Russia advised North Korea so it could successfully launch the satellite as part of the September deal between leader Kim Jong-un and the president, Vladimir Putin.

It is believed that both sides agreed that Pyongyang would receive technical assistance from Moscow in aerospace fields, among other things, in exchange for sending weapons for use in Ukraine.

According to US intelligence services, Russia tried to undermine elections in nine democratic countries.

According to Pyongyang, the satellite has already been able to obtain images of US military installations on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

The deployment of the first reconnaissance satellite is a fact important step that would now make it possible to detect, for example, troop movements in Northeast Asia at different times of the day or detect targets for possible pre-emptive attacks. (JO)