SEOUL (AFP) – The office operating North Korea’s newly launched spy satellite will run as a military intelligence organisation, state media said yesterday.
Pyongyang successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit last month and has since claimed it was providing images of major United States and South Korean military sites.
It has not yet disclosed any of the satellite imagery it claims to possess but warned on Saturday that any attack on its space asset would be considered a “declaration of war”.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said yesterday that the newly formed reconnaissance satellite operation office had begun its mission on December 2 and would operate as “an independent military intelligence organisation”.
The office will report its acquired information to the reconnaissance bureau at the army and other major units, KCNA added.
The report said that the North’s defence ministry expressed its war deterrence “would assume more perfect military posture”.
