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Consultations on North Korean Satellite Between Japan, US, and South Korea

Tokyo, May 29 – Takehiro Funakoshi, head of the Department of Asia and Ocean Affairs of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held telephone consultations with the South Korean Foreign Ministry’s Special Representative for Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula Kim Gong and the US Special Representative for North Korea Sun Kim regarding the North. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced its plans to launch a spy satellite.
The parties confirmed that North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile under the pretext of launching a “satellite” is a clear violation of the UN Security Council resolution banning North Korea’s use of ballistic missile technology, and urged it to refrain from launching it, “the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The two parties also agreed to work closely with each other and with partner countries in the field of security and to enhance deterrence and response power in the region.
It was reported earlier that the DPRK had informed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of its intention to launch a satellite between May 31 and June 11 this year. The North Korea Situation Department of the Office of the Prime Minister of Japan collects and analyzes information.
The alleged impact sites of the missile stages are outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone — two in the Yellow Sea southwest of North Korea and one off the Philippines in the eastern Pacific Ocean. However, as with the satellite launches in February 2016 and December 2012, the rocket with the satellite can fly over the area near Japan’s Sakishima archipelago. Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Monday ordered the Self-Defense Forces to shoot down a North Korean missile if it posed a threat to the country’s territory.
In mid-May, Kim Jong-un and his daughter inspected preparations for the launch of North Korea’s first military reconnaissance satellite, declaring the strategic importance of its possession against the background of the intensification of the “intrigues of the American imperialists.”
Japan regards North Korea’s launch of satellites as just a pretext to launch ballistic missiles. And North Korea carried out the last launch of a ballistic missile with a satellite in February 2016. Then it was reported about the successful launch of the satellite into orbit, but the signal from it was not recorded.

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