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Trespass to Airspace: How to Deter North Korea from Its Space Ambitions?

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저자 Kelly Kuan Shang
소속 및 직함 Maastricht University Faculty of Law
발행기관 (사) 이준국제법연구원
학술지 Journal of East Asia and International Law
권호사항 6(1)
수록페이지 범위 및 쪽수 221-240
발행 시기 2025년
키워드 #Satellite Launch   #Air Sovereignty   #NPT   #Outer Space Treaty   #Ballistic Missile   #Right of Innocent Passage.   #Kelly Kuan Shang
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In deterring North Korea from pursuing its space ambitions, the neighboring States may consider to advance a sovereignty argument that North Korea's overflying rockets have trespassed to their territorial airspace. The current UNSC Resolution-based arguments may not provide adequate deterrence because they are built upon a unilateral interpretation of the UNSC Resolutions and therefore lack legal persuasiveness. Currently, there is seemingly a strong international consensus favoring the demarcation line between airspace and outer space at approximately 100-120 kilometers above the sea level. As the North Korean rockets will likely overflow foreign territories when reaching to this altitude, a trespass claim should therefore have strong legal merits. Moreover, North Korea cannot raise a defense by claiming a right of innocent passage over foreign airspace, because such right does not exist as a customary international law. Even if such right exists, North Korea will be hard to rely on it because its overflying rockets are hardly 'innocent.'
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