North Korea fails to launch spy satellite for a second time

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea tried and failed for a second time to launch a spy satellite, state media said, vowing to make a third attempt in October.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea tried and failed for a second time to launch a spy satellite, state media said, vowing to make a third attempt in October.

The Malligyong-1 spy satellite was launched Thursday local time on the newly developed Chollima-1 rocket, whose first- and second-stage flights were normal, the official Korean Central News Agency reported. It said the launch failed “due to an error in the emergency blasting system during the third-stage flight.”

The North Korean space agency said there would be a third launch attempt in October after it assessed why the launch Thursday failed. “The cause of the relevant accident is not a big problem in aspect of the reliability of cascade engines and the system,” it said, according to the KCNA report.

The governments of South Korea and Japan also reported the launch. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the rocket was launched around 3:50 a.m. (2:50 p.m. Wednesday ET) from North Korea’s Tongchang-ri area, the site of its main space launch center, and that the launch had failed.

The U.S. strongly condemned the launch as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from using ballistic missile technology, saying it raised tensions and threatened regional stability.

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