North Korea to Launch Military Spy Satellite for U.S. Drill Monitoring

North Korea announced plans to launch its first-ever military spy satellite in June to track "dangerous" actions by the US, pointing to its recent joint military drills with South Korea. The satellite will be "indispensable to tracking, monitoring, discriminating, controlling and coping with in advance in real time the dangerous military acts of the US and its vassal forces openly revealing their reckless ambition for aggression," said a North Korean military official. The announcement led to a rise in defense stocks of South Korean and Japanese companies. Some analysts believe the launch could be an intercontinental ballistic missile test.