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News North Korea registers satellite with UNRegistration is latest participation in long standing DPRK interest in space affairs
North Korea has official registered its recently launched satellite with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), according to DPRK media and a letter on the UN office’s website. The DPRK notified UNOOSA of the Kwangmyongsong-4 with a letter on May 9 that was published earlier this week. “The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations (Vienna) has the honor to transmit … information concerning the satellite Kwangmyongsong-4, which was launched by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 7 February 2016,” the letter reads. The documentation included in the letter gives © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |