The North Korean government officially notified Japan’s Coast Guard that it plans to launch a rocket into space sometime between Wednesday and December 1st, with foreign affairs pundits believing this is the third attempt to launch a spy satellite, Reuters reports.
Pyongyang notified the Japanese government because Japan serves as the regional authority for maritime craft in the area, and it will order a corridor over the Yellow Sea to be on alert for falling North Korea debris. After North Korea announced its failed attempt to launch a spy satellite in May, South Korea recovered the wreckage and reported it found nothing resembling surveillance equipment or anything that had “military utility.”