Tuesday’s launch comes a little over three months after the previous IGS satellite, Optical 6, was carried to orbit by another H-IIA rocket. Japan began the IGS program following North Korea’s failed launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1 satellite in August …
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Japan launches H-2A rocket carrying intelligence-gathering satellite
June 12, 2018
Japan on Tuesday launched an H-2A rocket carrying a government radar-type intelligence … The reconnaissance satellites will be used for such purposes as monitoring military facilities in North Korea and taking images of affected areas at a time of …
Trump, Kim launch historic Singapore summit with a handshake
June 12, 2018
Trump vowed to prevent that happening and threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”. He mocked Kim as “little rocket man” on a suicide mission. Kim denounced the U.S. president as the “mentally deranged U.S. dotard …
Trump Says North Korea Will Destroy Missile Site. But Which One?
June 12, 2018
Source: Scott LaFoy Credit: Alyson Hurt/NPR But North Korea has several test facilities scattered across … But this so-called “cold launch” technology wouldn’t produce a heat signature, which the president said was used to identify the facility slated …
Japan Launches Surveillance Satellite to Monitor North Korea, Disasters
June 12, 2018
TOKYO – Japan launched on Tuesday a surveillance satellite to monitor North Korea’s military installations and take … The radar satellite was launched using an H-2A rocket at 1:20 pm local time (0420 GMT) from the space center in Tanegashima …
Trump on Past Rhetoric With North Korea: I Felt ‘Foolish’ at Times, But It Was Necessary
June 12, 2018
Trump notably called Kim “Little Rocket Man” because of North Korea’s missile launches, said North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if it continued to threaten the U.S. and its allies, and responded to a threat from Kim about his “nuclear button” to …
Japan launches H-IIA rocket carrying intelligence-gathering satellite
June 12, 2018
The reconnaissance satellites will be used for such purposes as monitoring military facilities in North Korea and taking images of … Heavy Industries Ltd. launched the H-IIA F39 rocket from the agency’s launch site on the island in southwestern Japan.
From Little Rocket Man to denuclearization: A timeline of US-North Korea relations under Kim Jong Un
June 11, 2018
and begins repeatedly referring to Kim as “Little Rocket Man.” Shortly after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asserts that Washington and Pyongyang are in “direct contact” and pursuing talks, North Korea launches a missile that flies about 1000 km (620 …
June 12, 2018
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