NORTH Korea said today it would deploy new weapons and stronger armed forces to the border with the South, as Seoul’s spy agency said Pyongyang had received Russian help to successfully put a military spy satellite into orbit.

The “Malligyong-1” was launched on Tuesday, Pyongyang’s third attempt at securing a military eye in the sky after two failures in May and August, with Kim Jong Un already reviewing images of US military bases in Guam, the North’s state media has reported.