North Korea presents its first submarine with nuclear energy

Seoul, South Korea (AP) – North Korea First presented a submarine with a nuclear engine under construction, a weapons system that can represent a great security threat to South Korea and the United States.

The state media published photos that show what he called “an submarine of strategic guided missiles of nuclear operation,” said Leader Kim Jong Un Visits to the main shipyards where warships are built.

The Central Korean news agency, or KCNA, did not provide details about the submarine, but said that Kim was informed about its construction.

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The naval ship seems to be a 6,000 tons or 7,000 tons that can transport about 10 missiles, said Moon Keun-Sik, a South Korean Submarine expert teaches at Hanyang University in Seoul. He said that the use of the term “strategic guided missiles” meant that it would carry weapons with nuclear capacity.

“It would be absolutely threatening for us and the United States,” said Moon.

A nuclear motor submarine was among a long list of sophisticated armament desires that Kim promised to introduce during an important political conference in 2021 to deal with what he called military threats led by the United States. Other weapons were solid intercontinental ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, spy satellites and missiles of multiple war heads. Since then, North Korea has carried out a series of test activities to acquire them.

North Korea Obtaining a greater capacity to shoot missiles from water is a worrying development because it is difficult for its rivals to detect such releases in advance.

Questions about how North Korea, a very sanctioned and impoverished country, could obtain resources and technology to build submarines with nuclear engine.

Moon, the expert in underwater, said that North Korea may have received Russian technological assistance to build a nuclear reactor to be used in the submarine in exchange for supplying conventional weapons and troops to support Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine.

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He also said that North Korea could launch the submarine in one or two to prove his capacity before his real deployment.

North Korea has an estimate of 70-90 submarines with diesel engine in one of the largest fleets in the world. However, they are mostly older capable of launching only torpedoes and mines, not missiles.

In 2023, North Korea said he had launched what he called his first “tactical nuclear attack submarine”, but foreign experts doubted the northern announcement and speculated that it was probably an underwater with diesel engine revealed in 2019. Moon said there has been no confirmation that it has been deployed.

North Korea has performed a large amount of ballistic missile tests ready for water since 2016, but all launches were made with the same 2,000 -ton submarine that has only one launch tube. Many experts call it test platform, instead of an active duty operational submarine.

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In recent days, North Korea has been marking its burning rhetoric against the United States and South Korea before its next annual military exercises that will begin on Monday.

During his visits to the shipyards, Kim said that North Korea aims to modernize water surface and submarine warships simultaneously. He emphasized the need to make “incomparably overwhelming war ships fulfill their mission” to contain “the inveterate diplomacy of the hostile forces gunmen,” Kcna said on Saturday.