{"id":2110159,"date":"2023-11-28T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-says-its-new-spy-satellite-photographed-white-house-pentagon\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:29:02","slug":"north-korea-says-its-new-spy-satellite-photographed-white-house-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-says-its-new-spy-satellite-photographed-white-house-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Says Its New Spy Satellite Photographed White House, Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-says-its-new-spy-satellite-photographed-white-house-pentagon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2110159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: We can watch you, too.\t<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un had reviewed spy satellite photos of the White House, Pentagon, and U.S. aircraft carriers at the naval base of Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea last week successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite, which it has said was designed to monitor U.S. and South Korean military movements.<\/p>\n<p>Since then state media has reported the satellite photographed cities and military bases in South Korea, Guam, and Italy, in addition to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember when you got that toy you always wanted at Xmas and were so excited you wanted to tell everyone about it?&#8221; Chad O&#8217;Carroll, founder of the North Korea-focused website NK News, said of the KCNA reports in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Pyongyang has not released any imagery, leaving analysts and foreign governments to debate how capable the new satellite actually is.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea, which said on Tuesday the Nov. 30 launch date for its own first spy satellite on a U.S. Falcon 9 rocket would be delayed by weather, has said the North&#8217;s satellite capabilities could not be verified.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, the Pentagon said North Korea&#8217;s satellite did enter orbit but did not comment on Pyongyang&#8217;s claims about the images it had captured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will say that there are plenty of images of the Pentagon and the White House online,&#8221; Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason to doubt that the satellite could see the large areas or warships North Korea claimed it could, as even a medium-resolution camera could offer Pyongyang that capability, said Dave Schmerler, a satellite imagery expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But how useful those images are depends on what they want to use them for,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>For medium-resolution satellites to be useful in a conflict, North Korea will need to launch many more to allow more frequent passes over key sites, Schmerler said, a goal that the North&#8217;s space agency has said it is pursuing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a big leap for them going from zero to something, but until we can see the images they&#8217;re collecting, we&#8217;re speculating on its use cases,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Lewis, another researcher at CNS, said a state media photo of Kim examining the satellite images with his daughter suggest they may be panchromatic, a type of black-and-white photography that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea released panchromatic imagery of downtown Seoul after a rocket launch in December 2022 in what it said was a test of the satellite control, image taking, and data downlink for its eventual military reconnaissance satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s photos were the latest in a series of images of what KCNA described as &#8220;major target regions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kim also inspected satellite photos of the Andersen Air Force Base in the U.S. Western Pacific territory of Guam and a U.S. shipyard and airbase in Norfolk and Newport, where four nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a British aircraft carrier were spotted, KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial imagery of those cities on Nov. 27, the day North Korea says it captured its photographs, was not immediately available.\t<\/p>\n<p>The United States and South Korea have condemned the satellite launch as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning any use of ballistic technology.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Hyonhee ShinEditing by Chris Reese, Gerry Doyle, and Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: We can watch you, too. 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