The South Korean military denied reports that it has salvaged North Korea’s new military spy satellite from the sea on Tuesday, while emphasizing that it continues to search for debris from last month’s failed launch.

Several local media outlets reported on Monday that the military had recovered an object that appeared to be the satellite that the DPRK launched on May 31.

“The reports by a certain media outlet about the recovery of an object believe to be the Malligyong-1 satellite, which the DPRK claims it launched on a space launch vehicle, is different from the facts,” South Korea’s Joint