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North Korea said Monday that its latest spy satellite launch ended in a rocket explosion just minutes after lift-off, marking its third failure in its last four attempts to put a satellite into orbit.
Despite Russian space experts recently arriving to guide North Korea’s space program, South Korean news agencies Yonhap News The story was reported the day before the launch failure, citing an unnamed senior defense official.
Yonhap News Agency reported that a “large number” of Russian engineers had entered North Korea after Russian President Putin offered to transfer technology to North Korea last year. Supporting Pyongyang’s satellite launch.
It is unclear exactly how many engineers were sent to North Korea, when they arrived or what advice they gave to Pyongyang.
A senior South Korean official told the news agency that the higher level of the Russian experts may have led to a delay between North Korea’s previous satellite launch and preparations for Monday’s attempt.
Yonhap News reported that North Korea’s space rocket is also likely to experience problems with its second and third stage engines.
This could portend more serious problems for Pyongyang’s space program. The explosion during Monday’s launch occurred during the first stage of the rocket’s flight.
North Korean state media quoted a space official as saying a preliminary investigation found the rocket’s new liquid oxygen-oil engine was to blame, but the official also said there could have been other reasons for the launch failure.
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and the Russian Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
Relations between Russia and North Korea have deteriorated over the past year. The United States condemned the trade in arms and supplies. Deployed in the Ukrainian war.
Accusations from the United States and its allies say Moscow is sending raw materials, food and technical expertise to Pyongyang in exchange for shipments of artillery shells and missiles that Ukraine has reported seeing on the battlefield.
South Korea has said for several months that North Korea’s only satellite planned for launch in 2023 is This was made possible thanks to Russian assistance.
Pyongyang launched the Marijing-1 in November last year and claims it is still functioning, but South Korea said in February it had detected the satellite was not communicating with ground.
But some international experts said they saw signs of activity from the Great Mirror-1 that month.
North Korea’s repeated satellite launches have concerned the United States and its allies, who have sought to limit North Korea’s nuclear weapons and space program through comprehensive sanctions. North Korea’s repeated ballistic tests and space launches show that the country can survive despite global restrictions.
of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command It noted that North Korea’s Monday launch appears to have used technology linked to the country’s ballistic missile program and condemned the launch as a “blatant violation” of U.N. resolutions that could destabilize regional security.