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North Korea says it will soon have its own spies in the skies capable of seeing what its enemies are doing, just as the U.S. has been spying on the North for decades.
Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency made that claim this week, reporting that the North has tested its first spy satellite and will have one of them up for real by April. The KCNA report was the latest word on North Korean progress in developing missiles and nuclear warheads as “defense” against its enemies, the U.S., Japan and South Korea.
Kim Yo Jong, younger sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, scoffed at claims that the cameras weren’t as good as advertised by the North Koreans. Pyongyang’s KoreanCentral News Agency quoted her as saying “so-called experts were so keen on finding fault with others that they could not but make such senseless words.”