North Korea confirms the launch of a military spy satellite in June. Rocket will be launched between May 31 and June 11, Pyongyang says.
Rocket is expected to fall in an area near the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and east of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. North Korea has already tested in 2012 and 2016 ballistic missiles, which it had described as satellite launches and which had flown over the island department of Okinawa, south of Japan. The development of a reconnaissance satellite was among Pyongyang's key defense projects unveiled last year by Kim Jong Un.