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North Korea's Kim Inspects Spy Satellite Photos of 'Target Regions'

23 November 2023, North Korea, Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C), alongside his daughter Ju-ae (2nd L), joins a photo session with a group of engineers and scientists, who have contributed to the country's successful launch of a military spy satellite, at the National Aerospace Technology Administration. Photo: -/KCNA/dpa
23 November 2023, North Korea, Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C), alongside his daughter Ju-ae (2nd L), joins a photo session with a group of engineers and scientists, who have contributed to the country's successful launch of a military spy satellite, at the National Aerospace Technology Administration. Photo: -/KCNA/dpa
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North Korea's Kim Inspects Spy Satellite Photos of 'Target Regions'

23 November 2023, North Korea, Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C), alongside his daughter Ju-ae (2nd L), joins a photo session with a group of engineers and scientists, who have contributed to the country's successful launch of a military spy satellite, at the National Aerospace Technology Administration. Photo: -/KCNA/dpa
23 November 2023, North Korea, Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C), alongside his daughter Ju-ae (2nd L), joins a photo session with a group of engineers and scientists, who have contributed to the country's successful launch of a military spy satellite, at the National Aerospace Technology Administration. Photo: -/KCNA/dpa

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected photos taken by the country's new spy satellite of "major target regions", including the South Korean capital of Seoul and cities that host US.military bases, state media said on Saturday.
Nuclear-armed North Korea launched the satellite on Tuesday, but South Korean defense officials and analysts said its capabilities have not been independently verified, Reuters reported.
Kim examined photos of Seoul and other cities of Mokpo, Kunsan, Pyeongtaek and Osan, where US and South Korean military bases are located. The photos were taken as the satellite passed over the peninsula on Friday morning, state news agency KCNA said.
Kim examined the photos, as well as images of some areas within North Korea, during a visit on Friday to the control center of the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) in Pyongyang.
On Saturday, Kim visited the control center once again to examine more photos taken in the morning of different target regions in South Korea: Jinhae, Busan, Ulsan, Pohang, Daegu and Gangneung.
One photo showed US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, which arrived at a port in the South Korean city of Busan on Tuesday, according to KCNA.
During the visit, Kim also inspected photos of US Naval Station Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base taken by the satellite as it passed over Hawaii early on Saturday.
In a separate commentary carried by KCNA on Saturday, North Korea criticized the United States for providing advanced weapons to its "puppets", saying that even a small spark on the Korean peninsula would result in a global nuclear war.
"The United States had better ponder over the catastrophic consequences entailed by the arms offer to the puppet forces," it said.
Top diplomats of Japan, South Korea and the United States spoke on Friday and "strongly condemned the (Nov. 21) launch for its destabilizing effect on the region," the US State Department said in a statement.
Earlier this week, KCNA said Kim viewed images taken above the US Pacific territory of Guam of US military installations.

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South Korea’s Main Opposition Party Taps Former Party Chief as Presidential Candidate

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party's former leader Lee Jae-myung delivers his speech after winning the nomination as the June 3 presidential election candidate during a party's convention in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party's former leader Lee Jae-myung delivers his speech after winning the nomination as the June 3 presidential election candidate during a party's convention in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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South Korea’s Main Opposition Party Taps Former Party Chief as Presidential Candidate

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party's former leader Lee Jae-myung delivers his speech after winning the nomination as the June 3 presidential election candidate during a party's convention in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party's former leader Lee Jae-myung delivers his speech after winning the nomination as the June 3 presidential election candidate during a party's convention in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korea’s main liberal opposition party tapped Sunday its former leader Lee Jae-myung as presidential candidate in the upcoming June 3 vote.

The Democratic Party said Lee has won nearly 90% of the votes cast during the party’s primary that ended Sunday, defeating two competitors.

Lee, a liberal who wants greater economic parity in South Korea and warmer ties with North Korea, has solidified his position as front-runner to succeed recently ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Lee had led the opposition-controlled parliament’s impeachment of Yoon over his imposition of martial law before the Constitutional Court formally dismissed him in early April. Yoon’s ouster prompted a snap election set for June 3 to find a new president, who’ll be given a full, single five-year term, The AP news reported.

Lee, 60, lost the 2022 election to Yoon in the narrowest margin recorded in the country’s presidential elections.

He is the clear favorite to win the election.

In a Gallup Korea poll released Friday, 38% of respondents chose Lee as their preferred new president, while all other aspirants obtained single-digit support ratings. The main conservative People Power Party is to nominate its candidate next weekend, and its four presidential hopefuls competing to win the party ticket won combined 23% of support ratings in the Gallup survey.

Lee, who served as the governor of South Korea’s most populous Gyeonggi province and a mayor of Seongnam city, has long established an image as an anti-establishment figure who can eliminate deep-rooted unfairness, inequality and corruption in South Korea. But his critics view him as a populist who relies on stoking divisions and demonizing opponents and worry his rule would likely end up intensifying a domestic division.