North Korea accuses US of double standards over South Korea spy satellite

(South Korea Defence Ministry/AP)

North Korea has accused the United States of double standards, castigating it for letting rival South Korea launch a spy satellite from US territory after condemning the North’s earlier satellite launch.

Last Friday, South Korea launched its first domestically-built spy satellite into space from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. That came after North Korea put its own military spy satellite into orbit for the first time on November 21.