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A6 WORLD NEWS
Monday 7 March 2022
North Korea confirms new tests on spy satellite

By HYUNG-JIN KIM spotted on Saturday.
Associated Press Outside experts believe
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea fired a ballistic
— North Korea performed missile carrying a camera
data transmission and oth- to perform the tests de-
er key tests needed to de- scribed in the KCNA report.
velop a spy satellite, state Last Monday, North Korea
media said Sunday, in the said it tested a camera de-
second such tests in about signed to be placed on a
a week, indicating the reconnaissance satellite
country intends to conduct and released space-based
a prohibited long-range photos of Earth, a day after
rocket launch soon. its rivals said it conducted a
The moves come as North ballistic missile launch.
Korea has been carrying A spy satellite is among a
out a spate of ballistic mis- long wish list of new weap-
sile launches - including ons systems that Korean
one detected by its neigh- leader Kim Jong Un has
bors on Saturday - in what vowed to introduce to
experts call an attempt to cope with what he calls
add new weapons systems U.S. hostility. To operate a
to its arsenal and pres- reconnaissance satellite,
sure the United States into North Korea must launch a
making concessions amid long-range rocket to put it People watch a TV showing a file image of North Korea’s missile launch during a news program at
stalled diplomacy. into orbit. But the U.N. bans the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 5, 2022. Associated Press
On Sunday, the North’s Ko- such a launch by North Ko-
rean Central News Agency rea because it considers Cheong Seong-Chang at and 2016, but some foreign jor political anniversary in
said it conducted “another that as a cover for testing the private Sejong Institute experts say neither one April, the 110th birthday of
important test” the previ- its long-range missile tech- in South Korea. transmitted any imagery state founder Kim Il Sung,
ous day under its plan to nology. “While it may succeed in back to North Korea. the late grandfather of Kim
develop a reconnaissance It’s unclear if North Korea what it calls ‘a reconnais- Those satellite launches Jong Un.
satellite. It said authorities has developed a sufficient- sance satellite launch,’ it were still believed to have Negotiations between
tested the satellite’s data ly capable camera to be would still likely take a very contributed to North Ko- Pyongyang and Washing-
transmission, reception and installed on a spy satellite, long time for North Korea to rea’s missile development ton have remained large-
ground-based control sys- as the satellite photos the obtain militarily meaningful program. In 2017, North Ko- ly stalled for about three
tems. country released last Mon- reconnaissance technol- rea carried out three inter- years due to disputes over
The KCNA dispatch didn’t day didn’t include high-res- ogy because of powerful continental ballistic missiles U.S.-led sanctions on North
directly mention any missile olution imagery. international sanctions that tests that analysts say dem- Korea. Earlier this year,
or rocket launches to con- After Saturday’s test, North restrict its import of high- onstrated its potential abil- North Korea test-fired a
duct such satellite-related Korea didn’t immediately tech equipment and its ity to launch nuclear strikes variety of sophisticated
tests, but it apparently re- disclose new satellite pho- poor civilian technology,” on the American home- nuclear-capable missiles
ferred to the North’s ninth tos, suggesting the country Cheong said. land. including one that analysts
round of missile launches failed to photograph high- North Korea put its first and Experts say North Korea will say places the U.S. Pacific
this year, which Seoul, er-resolution images than second Earth observation likely conduct a spy satel- territory of Guam within its
Washington and Tokyo earlier ones, said analyst satellites into orbit in 2012 lite launch ahead of a ma- striking distance.q

Anti-money-laundering body puts UAE

on global ‘gray’ list

night by the Paris-based Fi- a risk, which can affect inter- Emirates.
nancial Action Task Force puts est rates for loans. A 2018 report by the Wash-
the UAE, home to Dubai and While praising the UAE’s “sig- ington-based Center for Ad-
oil-rich Abu Dhabi, on a list of nificant progress,” the body vanced Defense Studies, rely-
23 countries including fellow known as FATF said more ing on leaked Dubai property
Mideast nations Jordan, Syria needed to be done. Already, data, found that war profi-
and Yemen. the UAE has established a teers, terror financiers and
While not expected to dent corporate registry and signed drug traffickers sanctioned
business in the Emirates, a extradition agreements with by the U.S. had used the city-
Luxury towers that dominate the skyline in the Dubai Marina
district, center, and the new Dubai Harbor development, right, federation of seven sheikh- other nations. state’s boom-and-bust real
are seen from the observation deck of “The View at The Palm doms on the Arabian Pen- However, the UAE long has estate market as a safe haven
Jumeirah” in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. insula home to a multitude been known as a place where for their money.
Associated Press of economic free zones and bags of cash, diamonds, gold Emirati officials on Twitter
By JON GAMBRELL Emirates on its so-called “gray real estate ventures, it could and other valuables can be and its state-run WAM news
Associated Press list” over concerns that the strike at the country’s careful- moved into and through. In agency rushed to reassure in-
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates global trade hub isn’t doing ly managed business-friendly recent years, the State De- vestors that the UAE remained
(AP) — A global body focused enough to stop criminals and image. Ratings agencies and partment had described a safe, regulated place to do
on fighting money laundering militants from hiding wealth other financial institutions “bulk cash smuggling” as “a business and would address
has placed the United Arab there. The decision late Friday also consider such a listing as significant problem” in the the international concerns.q