North Korea has informed Japan’s coast guard that it will launch a satellite in the coming days, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reports.

The launch is scheduled to take place between Thursday, August 24 and Thursday, August 31; it will be a new attempt to put a military satellite into orbit, after the one that failed in May, Kyodo explained.

On May 31, a missile that Pyongyang said was carrying a military reconnaissance satellite crashed into the Yellow Sea shortly after launch due to a technical problem – engine and fuel system instability, according to North Korean authorities.

Pyongyang had explained that it wanted to “counter the dangerous military actions of the US and its proxies”.

The launch had been condemned by the US, South Korea and Japan, denouncing a further violation of UN Security Council resolutions that in theory prohibit North Korea from launching ballistic missiles, the technologies of which are similar to those used to launch satellites. .

The launch had caused alarm in Japan and South Korea.

However, after the recovery and analysis of the debris, South Korea’s Ministry of Defense said that, according to its experts, the satellite would have “no military utility in terms of reconnaissance”.

Although North Korea generally does not warn about its missile tests, it does publicize its space program, which it presents as peaceful.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s office said Tokyo, Seoul and Washington would monitor the launch in close coordination.

Japan’s coast guard said the rocket carrying the satellite would likely land outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).