2023-06-19 00:44:14
North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party has “severely criticized” those responsible for the failed launch of a spy satellite on May 31, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday.
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At a plenary meeting held from June 16 to 18, North Korea’s one-party central committee “severely criticized officials who irresponsibly carried out preparations for the launch of the satellite”, and demanded a investigating this “serious” failure, according to KCNA.
On May 31, a rocket presented by Pyongyang as being the launcher of a military observation satellite crashed into the Yellow Sea shortly after takeoff, North Korean authorities citing a technical problem. The South Korean military later recovered several parts of the projectile.
This launch was condemned by the United States, South Korea and Japan, which denounced a new violation of United Nations resolutions prohibiting North Korea from firing ballistic missiles, whose technologies are similar to those of launchers. spatial.
The central committee demanded an investigation “to analyze in depth the cause and the lesson to be learned from the failure”, and asked that a new spy satellite be put into orbit as soon as possible “to improve the capabilities of Korean People’s Army reconnaissance intelligence,” KCNA reported.
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