South Korea: successful launch of a second spy satellite. Seoul plans to launch a total of five spy devices by 2025 to better monitor North Korea.
These two launches reflect an intensification of the space race on the Korean peninsula. For its part, North Korea claimed that its own satellite was in orbit and that it had sent images of the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as well as “major targets” in South Korea. Pyongyang managed to send its “Malligyong-1” device into space after two failures in May and 2023.