Anchor: North Korea state media recently began highlighting the regime's aerospace development project. The North has been using its space program as a ruse to advance its intercontinental ballistic missile technologies. 
Our Bae Joo-yon has more.
 
Report: A North Korean media outlet on Friday carried an interview with an aerospace researcher, who claimed that a state space development program will begin in earnest.

Without revealing the name of the individual, the propaganda outlet "DPRK Today" said the researcher is working on the long-range rocket program at the North’s National Aerospace Development Administration.

The researcher was cited as saying that the state space agency will actively carry out its five-year aerospace development plan drawn up by the North Korean communist party.

The interview is only the latest in a recent series of media highlights of the North Korean space project by state-run outlets.

North Korean propaganda agencies have been discussing last February’s launch of the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite, which was widely believed to be a satellite launch through which Pyongyang advanced its intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM) technologies.

As the North is officially hinting at its plans to test its long-range launch capabilities, North Korea’s Ambassador to Russia Kim Hyung-joon told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency earlier this week that his government can test-fire an ICBM at any time.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.

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