TOKYO: Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country’s space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea’s quickening missile program.

The Radar 5 unit was carried into space on Japan’s mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country’s southwest.

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