MOSCOW, Nov 23 North Korea said it would immediately resume everything military measures suspended under the 2018 military agreement with South Korea, Yonhap reports.
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“North Korea said it would immediately resume all military measures suspended under the 2018 inter-Korean military agreement,” the agency writes.< /p>
On Monday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff called on Pyongyang to immediately stop preparations for the satellite launch and warned that it would take the necessary measures to protect people if North Korea goes ahead with its plan despite warnings from the international community.
Calling on Pyongyang to cancel The launch was also addressed by special representatives of the United States, Japan and South Korea, emphasizing that even if the DPRK intends to simply launch a satellite into orbit, it will violate UN Security Council resolutions prohibiting the country from launching using ballistic missile technology.
Seoul later said it would take steps to suspend the inter-Korean military agreement of September 19, 2018, limiting reconnaissance aircraft flights near the border.
North Korea, in turn, argues that it has every right to improve its space capabilities intelligence. According to researcher Lee Sung-jin from the National Space Administration, this area is necessary for the state to counter the efforts of the United States and its allies to neutralize North Korean strategic objects.
At the same time, Lee Sung-jin called the launch of the first South Korean reconnaissance satellite scheduled for November 30 » «an extremely dangerous military provocation» aimed at increasing the ability to control North Korean strategic objects in the interior of the country and launching a preventive strike on them in the event of hostilities.
According to the researcher, Washington is seeking to strengthen intelligence collection capabilities in the region in order to increase the effectiveness and reliability of missile defense systems and thus achieve strategic superiority over North Korea, China and Russia.