South Korea salvaged a failed North Korean spy satellite from the sea, giving it a rare direct look at Pyongyang¡¯s capabilities even as it concluded that the technology had little military value.
Officials on Wednesday said they concluded a 36-day salvage operation that deployed ships, aircraft and deep-sea divers to search for the rocket that was launched on May 31 but failed a few minutes into flight before crashing in international waters in the Yellow Sea. The salvage operation will likely end up being the most significant by the outside world on a North Korean rocket.
¡°Through this operation, major parts of North Korea¡¯s space launch vehicle and satellite were recovered, and after careful analysis by American and South Korean experts, it was determined that they had no military efficacy as reconnaissance satellites,¡± South Korea¡¯s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
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