North Korea says it has received photographs of US military bases andon the Pacific island of Guam, captured by his first spy satellite, which he launched the day before aboard a space rocket.

State news agency KCNA reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un saw “photos from Anderson Air Force Base, Port Apra (home to a naval base) and other areas of important North American troop enclaves, captured from the skies over the Pacific island of Guam at 9:21 a.m. (0.21 GMT) November. 22″.

Kim allegedly saw the images during his visit today to the main control center of the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) in Pyongyang, where he was told that The Mulligan-1 satellite will officially launch on December 1st. after making adjustments within the next “7-10 days.”

KCNA published a photo Kim visits the above center in the company of Deputy Director of the Department of Military Industry Kim Jong-sik, one of the main figures of the North Korean missile program, and another photo of objects showing only general control panels, which were also blurred before your publication.

For its part, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) explained in a statement that after a thorough review of his career and other factors, it assesses that “The satellite appears to be in orbit” although he added that “determining whether the satellite is operating normally will take time as additional tests will be required.”

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If the regime’s claims are true, then North Korea’s surveillance capabilities would take a significant leap with the deployment of this satellite, which would now allow it to detect, for example, troop movements in Northeast Asia at different times, since the vehicle, located in polar orbit, would make more than one complete revolution around the Earth every day.

Kim stressed the importance of monitoring US movements and recalled that over the past few hours, Washington has deployed both the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the submarine USS Santa Fe in the south of the peninsula, integrated into one strike group, as part of a deterrence mechanism agreed with Seoul.

The North Korean marshal “also emphasized the need to launch several more reconnaissance satellites, placing them in different orbits and exploit them in a practical and combined manner”, a plan that NATA says will be discussed at a plenary meeting of North Korea’s only party scheduled for the last days of December.

(EFE)