A video captured by a South Korean astronomy lab recording observations of the night sky Tuesday night shows a North Korean rocket launch, reportedly to place an alleged spy satellite into orbit, in the lower left corner of the video, with a bright flash around the 0:25 second mark exploding in the sky. Pundits believe the video shows the intentional destruction of the first stage of the rocket after it separated from the second stage, a believed planned detonation to prevent the rocket from being examined by Japanese or US intelligence agencies. The launch was the third North Korean attempt to put the satellite in orbit; the rockets that took the first two satellites didn’t yield much intelligence given they exploded mid-flight. And wreckage from one of the previous attempts showed the claimed “spy satellite” to have little military value.