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.

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.

  • @BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfEnglish
    -2•1 year ago

    I mean, they weren’t even trying until pretty recently.

    I feel like most people have no clue most of the history of NK. They pretty much fell out of most peoples heads after the Korean War. They didn’t even start trying to build nukes until after Bush essentially threatened to invade them with his axis of evil speech. They were significantly more developed than the south until either the 80s or 90s, and if we hadn’t threatened them to where they feel the need for constant Sabre-rattling, it’s unlikely that they would have ever attempted to get up a spy satellite, because prior to our efforts, they were focused primarily on development, not military or espionage.