Kim Jong Un’s sister says ‘I want to punch those bas***ds’ after experts deride images of North Korea’s new spy satellite as grainy and useless

Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo Jong spoke out after the country’s state media released two low-resolution photos of South Korean cities from space, which some civilian experts say are too crude for surveillance purposes.

“I really want to slap that b***** priest who is always gossiping, but don’t know where to start,” Ms Yo Jong said on Tuesday, according to North Korea’s Central News Agency.

North Korea earlier claimed Sunday’s missile launches were tests of its first military reconnaissance satellite, and state media released the grainy footage on Monday.

Analysts and experts in South Korea have cast doubt on the regime’s test of the “important final phase” of the development of its own reconnaissance satellite.

North Korea earlier claimed Sunday’s missile launches were tests of its first military reconnaissance satellite, and state media released the grainy footage on Monday

Some civilian experts in South Korea and elsewhere said the photos were likely a cover for North Korea’s missile technology.

A statement from Ms Yo Jong dismissed the criticism as “dog barking”.

“Don’t take your assessments as too inadequate and indifferent as you only commented on our satellite development capability and related preparations with two photos we published in our newspaper,” said the senior Labor Party official.

“I think it is better that they stop being nonsense, act carefully and think twice,” she warned.

Ms Yo Jong said the test satellite launched carried a commercial camera as there was no reason to use an expensive high-resolution model for a one-off test.

She pointed out that a higher resolution camera will be installed in the final version of the military reconnaissance satellite, which is expected to be launched in April 2023 or soon after.

Pictured: Kim Yo Jong delivers a speech at the national anti-coronavirus rally in Pyongyang, North Korea, on August 10, 2022

Ms Yo Jong said North Korea is using two outdated missiles as launch vehicles – one for a signal tracking and receiving test and the other for satellite imagery and other tests.

“If we want to develop an ICBM, we just launch it. We are not using a satellite to conduct a secret test of a long-range missile, as South Korean puppets claim to influence public opinion,” she added.

According to South Korean intelligence, Ms Yo Jong is considered to be North Korea’s most influential official after her brother.

Pictured: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un leads a ground ejection test – a test involving a high-performance solid fuel engine – carried out at the Saikai satellite launch site in South Pyongan province

She mocked the South Korean military for evaluating Sunday’s launches as medium-range missiles and denounced South Korea’s Unification Ministry for condemning the satellite launch for violating UN Security Council resolutions that North Korea’s launch of ballistic missiles prohibited to prohibit.

Ms Yo Jong said the development of a spy satellite is a sovereign right directly related to North Korea’s national security. She said North Korea will fight international sanctions and strengthen its defense capabilities as its existence is threatened.

She also dismissed the South Korean government’s assessment that North Korea still lacks key technologies to have operational ICBMs capable of reaching the US mainland and that it cannot protect its nuclear warheads from the harsh conditions of re-entry into the American atmosphere not.

Pictured: Kim Yo Jong attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 2, 2019

Ms Yo Jong wondered how North Korea could get data from nuclear warheads until they landed on previous launches when the country really had no re-entry technology.

A spy satellite was one of a series of high-tech weapons systems that Kim Jong Un said last year North Korea needed to better deal with US military threats. Other weapons Jong-un plans to develop include multi-warhead missiles, long-range solid-fuel missiles, underwater nuclear missiles, nuclear submarines and hypersonic missiles.

North Korea is under strict international sanctions for its nuclear weapons programs, but peaceful satellite launches are not subject to the same restrictions.

Pictured: Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a missile test at an undisclosed location in North Korea sometime between September 25 and October 9

Analysts say the development of such satellites would give North Korea the opportunity to test ICBMs, as they share much of the same technology.

Earlier this year, Pyongyang conducted two launches, claiming it was testing components for a reconnaissance satellite that the United States and South Korea said likely contained components of its new Hwasong-17 ICBMs.

Ms Yo Jong dismissed allegations that the satellite launches in the North were thinly disguised launches of banned ICBMs.

Pictured: Kim Yo Jong waits for the start of the preliminary round of the women’s ice hockey match between Switzerland and the combined Koreas at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea

This weekend’s launch comes after a year of unprecedented weapons testing by North Korea, including last month’s launch of its most advanced ICBM.

The United States and South Korea have been warning for months that Pyongyang is preparing for its seventh nuclear test.

The two countries held a joint air exercise on Tuesday and deployed a US B-52H strategic bomber to the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The long-range heavy bomber was part of an exercise involving the latest US and South Korean jets, including the F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters.

Experts say North Korea is particularly sensitive to joint air exercises by the US and South Korea because the air force is one of the weakest links in the military, lacking high-tech jets and well-trained pilots.