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South Korea's spy satellite to start 'full-fledged' mission

SEOUL — South Korea's first home-grown military spy satellite is ready to begin its 'full-fledged' mission of monitoring the North, Seoul's arms procurement agency said Wednesday.

The satellite, launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in December last year, is part of an intensifying space race on the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang claimed it launched its own military eye in the sky a month earlier that year.