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North Korea fails at launching a second spy satellite
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2:21Now PlayingNorth Korea's second attempt to place a spy satellite in orbit failed on Thursday (August 24) after the rocket booster experienced a problem during its third stage, state media reported, as space authorities vowed to try again in October.
Japan's Okinawa woke up to a loud siren early Thursday morning just before 4 a.m. local time, warning them to to take cover indoors from a rocket North Korea had launched minutes ago.
But that launch ended up as the second failure by Pyongyang to put a military spy satellite in space.
North Korea said the rocket booster experienced a problem during its third stage before it could reach orbit.
South Korea's military said it tracked the flight from its launch at the North's Sohae Satellite Launching Ground and also concluded it was a failure.
Thursday was the North's second failure in three months.
Its Chollima-1 rocket launch on May 31 met with a similar fate, with the booster and payload plunging into the sea off South Korea’s west coast.
However, the North's space agency vowed on Thursday to launch the satellite again in October.
The nuclear-armed country wants to place what would be its first military spy satellite into orbit, saying it eventually plans for a fleet of satellites to monitor moves by U.S. and South Korean troops.
Thursday's failure comes less than a week after US President Biden met the leaders of South Korea and Japan at Camp David, the presidential retreat where they agreed to look into conducting joint military exercises to tackle challenges that include North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat.
And on Monday, the US and South Korea kicked off a 10-day joint military drill known as Ulchi Freedom Shield, which the North called a rehearsal for nuclear war.
South Korea's Foreign Minister Park Jin and his U.S. and Japan counterparts on Thursday "strongly condemned" North Korea's rocket launch which they said was a ballistic missile disguised as a space rocket.
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