Weapons development and satellite-equipment testing are not mutually exclusive. Though not identical, the technologies are sufficiently similar that the same test can serve both aims
, North Korea quietly carried out two rocket launches in late February and early March, which landed off its east coast. A third launch on March 16th appeared to fail. North Korea claims that it is testing equipment for the eventual launch of a “reconnaissance satellite”. America frets thatregime is testing intercontinental ballistic missiles , which it says would be “a brazen violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions”.
According to the state media’s paraphrase of Mr Kim, satellites would allow North Korea to gather real-time information on “US imperialism and its vassal forces”, thereby fulfilling its “legitimate” right to “self-defence”. The regime has in the past claimed that its space programme is in essence peaceful and designed to drive economic development and improve North Koreans’ lives. Satellites serve all sorts of purposes, from supporting global-positioning systems to monitoring crops.
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