North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected photos of “main target regions” taken by the country’s new spy satellite, including the South Korean capital Seoul and cities that host US military bases, state media reported. this Saturday (25).
North Korea launched the satellite on Tuesday, but South Korean defense officials and analysts said its capabilities had not been independently verified.
Kim examined photos of Seoul and other cities, such as Mokpo, Kunsan, Pyeongtaek and Osan, where U.S. and South Korean military bases are located.
The images were taken as the satellite passed over the peninsula on Friday morning (24), according to state news agency KCNA. The North Korean leader also analyzed photos of some areas of North Korea.
This happened during a visit on Friday to the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) control center in Pyongyang.
This Saturday, Kim visited the control center once again to examine more photos taken in the morning in different target regions in South Korea: Jinhae, Busan, Ulsan, Pohang, Daegu and Gangneung.
One of the images showed the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, which arrived at a port in the South Korean city of Busan on Tuesday (21), according to KCNA.
During the visit, Kim Jong Un also inspected photos of the US naval station at Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base taken by the satellite as it passed over Hawaii on Saturday morning.
In a separate commentary published by KCNA, North Korea criticized the United States for providing advanced weapons to its “puppets,” saying even a small spark on the Korean peninsula would result in a global nuclear war.
“It is better for the United States to consider the catastrophic consequences of offering weapons to puppet forces,” he warned.
Senior diplomats from Japan, South Korea and the United States spoke on Friday and “strongly condemned the launch for its destabilizing effect on the region,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement.
Earlier this week, KCNA claimed that Kim viewed images taken above the US Pacific territory of Guam of US military installations.
On Thursday, South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik stressed that North Korea had “exaggerated” by saying that Kim had already seen images from Guam, according to Yonhap news agency.
“Even if it enters a normal orbit, it takes a considerable amount of time to carry out normal reconnaissance,” he explained to Yonhap.
Source: CNN Brasil
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