https://spacewatch.global/tag/north-korea/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 30 May 2024 06:00:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/north-korea/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/05/north-korea-spy-satellite-launch-ends-in-a-mid-flight-explosion/ Thu, 30 May 2024 06:00:12 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55395 North Korea’s attempt to launch a second military reconnaissance satellite into orbit failed after the rocket carrying the reconnaissance satellite exploded mid-air during the flight of the first stage. Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that North Korea’s National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) conducted the launch of reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1-1 at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in Cholsan County of North Pyongan Province.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/12/south-korea-launches-first-military-spy-satellite/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:00:10 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=52618 SpaceX has successfully launched its first military spy satellite to better monitor North Korea. The launch happened at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Furthermore, it is the first of five spy satellites South Korea contracted with SpaceX to launch into space by 2025. The satellite is an electrooptical and infrared device, while the four remaining satellites will feature synthetic aperture radar, which can "see" through cloud cover and at night.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/04/south-korea-contracts-spacex-to-launch-five-military-satellites/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 06:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=40421 South Korea signed a contract with SpaceX to launch five of its spy satellites by 2025, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) confirmed. The first launch will take place by the end of 2023 onboard of a Falcon 9 rocket, delivering an 800-kg electro-optical infrared satellite to low Earth orbit.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/japan-stands-up-its-first-military-space-operations-squadron/ Thu, 21 May 2020 05:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22715 The Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and Ministry of Defense (MoD) stood up the country’s first Space Operations Squadron – the first component of Japan’s Space Domain Mission Unit (SDMU) – in a ceremony presided by the Japanese Minister of Defense Taro Kono on 18 May 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/spacewatchgl-perspectives-on-irans-satellite-launch-fabian-hinz-on-the-qased-satellite-launch-vehicle/ Tue, 12 May 2020 13:00:18 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22351 On 22 April 2020 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully launched a small satellite - the Noor-1 (Farsi for 'Light') - on a previously unseen satellite launch vehicle called the Qased. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/us-think-tanks-release-annual-counterspace-and-space-threats-studies/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21111 Two leading US think tanks – the Secure World Foundation (SWF) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) – simultaneously released their respective annual studies on global counterspace capabilities and space threats on Monday, 30 March 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/economist-nouriel-roubini-speculates-2020-will-see-first-global-cyber-war/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:00:49 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20236 One of the world’s most notable economists, Professor Nouriel Roubini, has speculated that 2020 will see its first all-out cyber war.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/01/japan-to-stand-up-space-domain-mission-unit-in-april-2020-to-counter-threats-to-satellites/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=18770 In remarks made marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan at both a commemorative ceremony and in the Japanese Diet, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that Japan will make efforts to counter threats in space and cyberspace and that the Japanese Self Defense Forces (SDF) will stand up its Space Domain Mission Unit (SDMU) in April 2020, with the aim of having it fully operational by 2022.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/12/japan-to-launch-electro-optical-igs-reconnaissance-satellite-in-january-2020/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17979 Japanese satellite and space industry giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced that an MHI H-IIA satellite launch vehicle will send Japan's eighth Intelligence Gathering System (IGS) reconnaissance satellite into orbit from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwest Japan, on 27 January 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/05/japanese-military-space-mod-to-allocate-100-personnel-for-space-domain-mission-unit-by-fy2022-seeks-replacement-for-lost-worldview-4/ Thu, 16 May 2019 05:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14131 Japan's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed that it will assign 100 military personnel to its Space Domain Mission Unit that is expected to be stood up by Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 and will based at the Fuchu Air Base, operated by the Japanese Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF), west of Tokyo.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/military-space-japan-and-united-states-pledge-mutual-defence-cooperation-in-space-cyber/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13657 On 19 April 2019, the U.S.–Japan Security Consultative Committee convened in Washington, DC, with the participation of Secretary of State Pompeo, Acting Secretary of Defense Shanahan, Minister for Foreign Affairs Kono, and Minister of Defense Iwaya.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/space-wars-u-s-intelligence-chiefs-describe-growing-chinese-and-russian-space-threats/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12618 U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dan Coats, along with the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), gave testimony to the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence about the Office of the DNI's latest Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community on 29 January 2019]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/japan-reaches-out-to-allies-for-satellite-reconnaissance-and-intelligence-cooperation/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:00:25 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12356 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited London and Paris as part of an effort to strengthen Tokyo's ties with Western intelligence in order to counter increasing Chinese military and espionage activities throughout the Asia-Pacific region.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/india-and-japan-to-hold-first-space-dialogue-in-march-2019/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:00:15 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11884 India and Japan have scheduled their first annual bilateral space dialogue in March 2019, where they will discuss cooperation and coordination on a range of civil and national security space issues, ranging from space-based maritime domain awareness and satellite reconnaissance through to the harmonization of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems and space exploration, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/12/spacewatchgl-interview-dr-scott-pace-of-the-u-s-national-space-council-part-ii/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 06:00:37 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11675 The United States National Space Council was re-established by President Donald J. Trump in 2017 after ceasing operations in 1993. The Council works to develop a strategy for national space activities and also to foster co-operation with other countries and space agencies in order to advance the U.S. space agenda and to share information. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/spacewatchgl-oped-asia-in-space-cooperation-or-conflict/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 05:00:32 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10873 As the Asian Century takes on an interstellar dimension, who will write the rules of the road? Rajeswari Rajagopalan writes that space will likely be no exception to Asia’s great power rivalries.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/south-korean-military-developing-cyber-rules-of-engagement-to-counter-pyongyang-cyber-attacks/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:00:27 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10841 South Korea is considering drawing up rules of engagement in cyberspace to better defend against growing threats from North Korea and other unidentified threat actors, the South Korean military revealed on 14 October 2018, according to a report from the Yonhap News Agency.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/new-japanese-defence-policy-guidelines-emphasise-space-and-cyber-power/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:00:20 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10145 The Japanese government has issued the 2018 policy guidelines for national defence that emphasises the growing threats emanating from China, North Korea, and Russia in the cyberspace and space domains.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/swgl-oped-a-u-s-space-force-in-trumps-shadow-look-beyond-the-man/ Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10093 The recent pronouncement by President Donald Trump that called for the creation of a separate U.S. Space Force has been met with some consternation by a number of commentators around the world. This reaction seems more concerned with the controversial persona of President Trump rather than with the policy substance behind the rhetoric.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/south-korea-seeks-to-restore-public-trust-in-its-cyber-war-command/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 05:00:17 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9884 The South Korean defence ministry has announced that it is reorganizing its military cyber command in order restore public and politic trust following allegations that officers tried to interfere in the South Korean political process.]]>