North Korea intends to launch a satellite to deal with Washington’s dangerous military actions

Pyongyang (ST) – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) affirmed its intention to launch a military satellite in June to track, monitor and deal with the dangerous military actions of the US.

The Korean Central News Agency quoted the Secretary-General of the Democratic Work Party of Korea, Ri Pyong Chol, as saying: ” The DPRK’s military reconnaissance satellite No. 1 to be launched in June, in addition to newly tested various reconnaissance means that are indispensable to tracking, monitoring, discriminating, controlling and coping with in advance to the dangerous military acts of the U.S.”

“Under the present situation brought by the reckless military acts by the U.S. and South Korea, we steadily feel the need to expand reconnaissance and information means and improve various defensive and offensive weapons and have the timetables for carrying out their development plans”, he added.

He stated that the U.S. forces and the South Korean puppet army are staging the largest-ever “combined joint fire annihilation drill” in Phochon, Kyonggi Province of South Korea adjacent to the Military Demarcation Line for the first time in six years.

Najla Khoury