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North Korea will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide real-time information on military actions by the US and its allies, state media on Thursday reported leader Kim Jong Un as saying.While inspecting North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration, Kim said "a lot" of military reconnaissance satellites would be put into sun-synchronous polar orbit in the period of a five-year plan announced last year, state news agency KCNA reported."He noted that the purpose of developing…