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Fueled by Kim Jong Un’s ‘love’: North Korea hails satellite launch anniversary

State-run radio says DPRK will ‘surprise the world’ with its aerospace development in the future

North Korea’s aerospace development will “surprise the world” in the future, a domestic radio broadcast said early Monday morning, marking the sixth anniversary of the country’s last satellite launch.

The state-run Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS) report hailing the 2016 launch of the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite largely recycled state propaganda on space science, but it came just weeks after the DPRK hinted at resuming long-range missile and nuclear tests and follows the Jan. 30 test-firing of its longest-range missile since 2017.

“The road toward conquering space will continue today and tomorrow, and the heroic legend of [DPRK] surprising the world on