North Korea said it directed "another significant" test for observation satellite frameworks, state news office KCNA provided details regarding Sunday, a day after local military specialists revealed the send off of a long range rocket from the country for the second opportunity in seven days.
North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration (NADA) and the Academy of Defense Science directed the send off "under the arrangement of fostering a surveillance satellite," KCNA announced.
It was the second such send off in seven days to test satellite gear, and the 10th rocket send off this year.
"Through the test, the NADA affirmed the unwavering quality of information transmission and gathering arrangement of the satellite, its control order framework and different ground-based control frameworks," KCNA said.
Like the keep going test on Feb. 27, KCNA didn't expound on the kind of rocket utilized in the send off, however experts in South Korea said it seemed, by all accounts, to be a long range rocket terminated from an area close to Pyongyang where its global air terminal is found.
South Korea's military said the North Korean rocket arrived at a tallness of around 560 km (350 miles) and flew 270 km (170 miles).
In the midst of slowed down denuclearisation talks, North Korea led a record number of weapons dispatches in January, and has proposed it could continue testing atomic weapons or its longest reach intercontinental long range rockets (ICBMs) interestingly beginning around 2017.
Saturday's test came only days in front of an official political race on Wednesday in South Korea, where authorities are preparing for a North Korean endeavor to send off its covert operative satellite into space sooner rather than later.
"Any satellite send off would bring genuine repercussions, as it's a similar innovation used to send off an ICBM," Lee Jong-seok, the top international strategy counselor to administering party up-and-comer Lee Jae-myung, has told Reuters.