🇰🇵 As Japanese media report (referring to both government officials and independent expert data), the DPRK's first reconnaissance satellite is, by all indications, operating successfully.

This is indicated not only by the correction of the orbital altitude (demonstrating not only the operability of the device’s engines, but also its controllability by commands from the ground), but also its regular, precise appearance over the same strategic objects in the region (with an interval of approximately once every 5 days).

The launch of 3 more similar satellites planned by Pyongyang in 2024 will make it possible to increase the frequency of viewing objects of interest by 4 times and switch to almost daily monitoring.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived at a public event for the first time in an Aurus car, which was presented to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The use of the car by the leader of the DPRK "serves as a vivid testimony of the Korean-Russian friendship, which is comprehensively strengthening and developing," his sister Kim Ye Jung stressed.

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