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professor of national security affairs and director of the asia—pacific studies group at the us naval war collegexactly this spy satellite can do. a satellite will allow north korea to have some degree of being able to to surveil what is happening in south korea. we're not entirely sure of the capabilities of this satellite. i have seen some assessments that indicated it's not going to have a very fine grained look and be able to, largely, see only big objects on the south korean side. but that's with just one satellite. and north korea has said that it is intending on putting multiple satellites into orbit, which will then give it a more consistent and more persistent ability to surveil what may be happening in regards to major troop movements, the movement of major assets in south korea. and so part of them expanding their military surveillance capability, which up to this point had certain limits to it. are you surprised that they succeeded this time? 0h, not entirely. you know, they have been at this for a while. they've tried twice this year. but those aren't the first times that they attemp