Overview

• North Korea's state media warns that a 'physical clash and war' have become a matter of time after the scrapping of a key military pact designed to reduce tensions with the South.
• North Korea accuses the US of double standards for allowing South Korea to launch a spy satellite from US soil, after condemning North Korea's earlier satellite launch.
• South Korea successfully conducted a flight of a solid-fuel rocket carrying a satellite over the sea near Jeju Island, amid a growing space race with neighboring North Korea.
• North Korea has claimed to have used its satellite to take images of the White House, Pentagon, US and British warships and military bases in South Korea and Japan.
• South Korea plans to launch four more spy satellites by 2025 under a contract with SpaceX, easing its dependence on US spy satellites to monitor strategic facilities in North Korea.