North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter visited the country’s space agency on Tuesday to inspect “completed” work on the country’s first military reconnaissance satellite, according to state media.

The visit to the National Aerospace Development Administration (NADA) follows the DPRK’s earlier statement that it would finish work on the satellite by April, as it continues to push forward one of the main defense goals laid out at the Eighth Party Congress in Jan. 2021.

Kim justified the development of the satellite as a necessary response to ongoing U.S.-ROK joint exercises and Washington’s efforts to “provide