North Korea’s Kim Gloats Over Spy Satellite Images, Courtesy of Google Maps, as the Peninsula Is Roiled by Breakdown of 2018 Pact Between North and South

‘There are plenty of images of the Pentagon and the White House online,’ says a Defense Department spokesman, when asked about the North Korean report boasting of the spy satellite’s success.

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
On November 23, 2023, North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, right, and his daughter attend a celebration of the launch of a spy satellite. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un would do well to stop gloating over the images that the North says he’s receiving from a spy satellite his regime launched last week in defiance of America and South Korea.

While the satellite is orbiting earth, it’s not at all clear if the pictures North Korea says Mr. Kim saw were from the satellite or simply downloaded from the internet. They were all targets that North Korean propaganda has vowed it might bomb someday — including the White House.

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