Passengers watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a space rocket, at a railway station in Seoul, South KoreaSEOUL - North Korea's spy satellite program is an "indispensable" measure to counter US space militarisation aimed at beefing up the US' preemptive nuclear strike capability and securing "world supremacy," state media KCNA said on Tuesday .
Ri singled out a recent trip by the US Space Force commander to Tokyo, and the deployment of a Space Force component in South Korea, where its members took part in joint military drills for the first time this year. "Now that the US is getting hell-bent on space militarisation with a preemptive nuclear attack as its ultimate target by massively introducing space force into the Korean peninsula and its vicinity," Ri said, "space development, including a military reconnaissance satellite, is an indispensable strategic option for guaranteeing the security interests and right to existence of the DPRK.
In another KCNA dispatch, an international affairs commentator named Ra Jong-min denounced Canada's planned dispatch of military ships, aircraft and personnel for "Operation NEON," aimed at ensuring implementation of UN sanctions against North Korea.