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Two ballistic missiles were fired by North Korea into the Sea of Japan

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Sylvie Claire / December 18, 2022

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles on Sunday, days after Pyongyang announced a successful test of a solid fuel engine with the aim of developing a new weapon system.
  
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said they detected ballistic missiles fired from the Tongchang-ri area of North Pyongan Province in the direction of the East Sea, also called the Sea of Japan.
 
The missiles were detected between 11:13 a.m. and 12:05 p.m.
 
“Our military has strengthened surveillance and vigilance while closely cooperating with the United States and maintaining full readiness,” the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff added in a statement.
 
The missiles flew a distance of about 500 km, reaching a maximum altitude of about 550 km, according to the Japanese Defense Ministry.
 
 This threatens the peace and security of our country, this region and the international community, and is absolutely unacceptable,” said Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Toshiro Ino.
 
The launch comes as Pyongyang announced Friday that it had tested a “high-thrust solid fuel engine,” which its state-run media outlet KCNA called an important test “for the development of a new type of strategic weapons system.”
 
Despite heavy international sanctions on its weapons programs, Pyongyang has built an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
 
All its ICBMs, however, are liquid-fueled. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un considers the development of solid fuel engines for more advanced missiles a strategic priority.
 
Kim Jong Un stated in 2022 that he wanted North Korea to have the most powerful nuclear force in the world, and declared his country’s nuclear statehood “irreversible.
 
Among his goals unveiled in 2021 is the development of solid-fuel ICBMs that could be launched from land or from submarines.  
 
The engine test announced Friday was a step toward achieving that goal, but experts do not know what stage of development North Korea is at regarding such missiles.
 
The isolated country’s 2023 policy guidelines are due to be outlined in December at a key party meeting. KCNA reported that Kim Jong Un said 2023 would be a “historic year.
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China sends its first civilian astronaut into space

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China sends its first civilian astronaut into space, Magnate Daily
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Eva Deschamps / June 1, 2023

The three astronauts’ stay is scheduled to last six months, and marks a new stage in the progress of Beijing’s space program.
 
On Tuesday May 30, China sent three new astronauts to its Tiangong space station, including for the first time a civilian. This is a valuable experience for the Asian giant, which has reaffirmed its desire to send a Chinese astronaut to the Moon by 2030, a major objective of a space program that has been progressing steadily for several decades.
 
The trio on the Shenzhou-16 mission lifted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket at 9:31 a.m. local time from the Jiuquan launch center in the Gobi Desert, according to AFP reporters on site. The launch was a “total success” and the “astronauts are in good shape”, said Zou Lipeng, director of the launch center.
 
Mission commander, veteran engineer Jing Haipeng, on his fourth space flight, is accompanied by engineer Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, a professor and the first Chinese civilian in space. A specialist in space science and engineering, Haichao will be in charge of experiments on the station. He does not come from the armed forces, as has always been the case until now. Their stay in Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace” in Chinese) is scheduled to last six months.
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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June

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The big announcement tonight: North Korea confirms launch of military spy satellite in June, Magnate Daily
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Sylvie Claire /  June 1, 2023

North Korea confirmed on Tuesday that it will launch a military spy satellite in June, in order to “confront dangerous US military actions”, according to the official KCNA agency.
The “military reconnaissance satellite number 1” will be “launched in June”, in order to “confront the dangerous military actions of the United States and its vassals”, according to Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission, quoted by KCNA.
On Monday, Japan announced that it had been informed by North Korea of a forthcoming satellite launch, a project which the Japanese government believed to conceal a ballistic missile launch.
According to Tokyo, Pyongyang has told the Japanese coastguard that a rocket will be launched between May 31 and June 11, and is expected to land in an area near the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and east of Luzon Island in the Philippines.
North Korea has already tested ballistic missiles in 2012 and 2016, which it described as satellite launches and which flew over the island department of Okinawa in southern Japan.
The development of a reconnaissance satellite was one of Pyongyang’s key defense projects unveiled last year by Kim Jong Un.
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China to send its first civilian into space on Tuesday

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Steph Deschamps / June 1, 2023

On Tuesday, China will send a civilian astronaut into space for the first time in its history on a manned mission to the Tiangong space station, the China Human Spaceflight Agency announced.

 

This astronaut, Gui Haichao, a “payload specialist”, is “a professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics”, Lin Xiqiang, spokesman for the space agency, told a press conference on Monday.

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Until now, all Chinese astronauts who have launched into space have been members of the People’s Liberation Army.

 

Mr. Gui will be “mainly responsible for in-orbit management of payloads” dedicated to space science experiments, the spokesman said.

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The civilian astronaut will orbit alongside Shenzhou-16 mission commander Jing Haipeng and astronaut Zhu Yangzhu.

 

The crew is due to take off from the Jiuquan launch base in northwest China at 09:31 local time, according to the space agency.

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Projects linked to China’s “space dream” are multiplying under the presidency of Xi Jinping.

 

The Asian giant has been investing billions of euros in its military-led space program for several decades, enabling it to make up most of the ground lost to the Americans and Russians.

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China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, and its Tiangong (“Celestial Palace”) space station has been fully operational since late 2022. In 2019, a Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the Moon. Then, in 2021, China landed a small robot on the surface of Mars. China plans to send its first crew to the Moon by 2029.

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