North Korea’s satellite launch on Wednesday failed because it rushed preparations in response to South Korea’s successful rocket launch last week, according to South Korea’s intelligence agency.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) shared the assessment during a closed-door session with the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, according to committee member Yu Sang-beom.

“The NIS analyzed that while the [DPRK rockets’] flight paths were straight in the past, technical problems may have occurred in the latest launch because it set a path skewed to the west and then made a hasty trajectory change to the east through lateral movement,” Yu