In a high-stakes race, South Korea and North Korea are vying for success in launching their first home-grown military spy satellites, backed respectively by the United States and Russia, as a pivotal initiative aimed at enhancing their military capabilities.
The South Korean military is set to launch its domestically developed reconnaissance satellite on Nov 30 from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, South Korea's new Defence Minister Shin Won-sik said on Friday.
California-headquartered US aerospace giant SpaceX's Falcon 9 will carry South Korea's first spy satellite.
The upcoming launch is part of South Korea's 425 Project, which aims to "secure the military's own reconnaissance satellites through research and development to monitor North Korea's key strategic targets and respond" to potential threats, the Defence Ministry explained in a separate statement issued on Friday.
In pursuit of this goal, the ministry has laid out plans to launch a total of five high-resolution military satellites by 2025 in the light of the growing importance of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance - or ISR - assets for early detection of advancing North Korean nuclear and missile threats.
The ministry emphasised that military spy satellites will be the core of ISR assets, which serve as the cornerstone for South Korea's three-axis defence system.
Spy satellites are poised to significantly reinforce the first axis of the three-pronged defence system, dubbed the "kill chain" pre-emptive strike mechanism, by bolstering ISR capabilities across deep areas and strategic targets in North Korea.
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