Kim Jong-un has announced plans to launch new satellites – Sight

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has declared that the country would continue the program launch satellites, the DPRK media reported.

«It is necessary to fully develop the research activities that (.. .) to launch more satellites, “-” Interfax “statement of Kim Jong-un with reference to the Korean Central News agency (KCNA).

February 7 with the DPRK cosmodrome “Shohei” has launched a ballistic missile. Then Central Television North Korea announced the launch of “Kvanmenson-4″ satellite.

The international community has condemned the satellite launch as rocket technology coincide with the intercontinental ballistic missile technology, for which North Korea was under UN sanctions. The world community, including Russia and China, issued a sharp criticism of the actions of the DPRK.

Currently, the UN Security Council consider the possibility of strengthening the sanctions against the DPRK and the US and its allies are planning to individual measures of influence on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear and military programs. So, last Friday, the US Congress supported the strengthening of sanctions against the DPRK.

«The possibility of a ban on entry into the South Korean ports are foreign vessels from North Korea, as well as the introduction of a number of other restrictive measures”, – transmits TASS According to sources in the South Korean government with reference to the agency Yonhap.

Since 2010, South Korea is already a ban on visits to its ports by North Korean ships and their approaches to the territorial waters of the country. These steps were taken after the crash of the corvette “Cheonan,” the South Korean Navy, which killed 46 sailors. Seoul and Washington believe that the warship torpedoed a North Korean submarine. Pyongyang has flatly denied the charges.