South Korea’s Spy Satellite Begins Watching Kim Jong Un’s North

South Korea’s first homemade surveillance satellite has begun transmitting images of the North, including central Pyongyang, at a time when relations between the two neighbors are at their most acrimonious in decades.

“Pyongyang’s central area and vessels at a port are clearly seen,” reported South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, quoting an anonymous military source’s analysis of the current test imagery.

The satellite was launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on December 1, less than two weeks after North Korea succeeded on its third attempt in putting its own spy satellite into orbit.