Seoul responds to North Korean regime with high-resolution satellite photo of Pyongyang

South Korea on Thursday released a satellite high-definition camera image of downtown North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, in response to photos released by the regime this week of two South Korean cities allegedly taken from a military intelligence satellite from Test.

A color photograph provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport clearly shows Kim Il Sung’s central square in Pyongyangthe epicenter of the regime’s great military parades and other important landmarks on the western shore of the North Korean capital.

Among them are the headquarters of the Workers’ Party, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the House of People’s Research or Department Store No. 1, located on Somun Street.

Photographs of the cities of South Korea.

The gesture is in response to the regime’s release last Monday of two photographs taken by a satellite test device launched last Sunday from Sohae Station in the country’s northeast.

One of the photos was taken from the capital of South Korea, Seoul, and the other from the neighboring port city of Incheon, located on the coast of the Yellow Sea.

The pictures are black and white and were supposedly taken by a camera with a resolution of 20 meters, that is, in each pixel it captures an area of ​​​​about 400 square meters.

This is very low resolution, as many commercial satellite cameras are capable of capturing about four square meters per pixel, far from the intended capabilities of great power military reconnaissance satellites, which are believed to be capable of capturing up to 0.25 square meters per pixel.

reconnaissance satellite

The criticism received by South Korean experts angered the regime, and Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, issued a scathing statement the next day, claiming that an inexpensive camera was used as a test device.

Pyongyang has said it wants to have a reconnaissance satellite ready by April next year.

Record volume of weapons testing, which North Korea this year, along with the big military maneuvers by Seoul and Washington and their growing military investment, have raised tensions on the peninsula to an all-time high.

(As reported by EFE)

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