North Korea is building submarines capable of firing ballistic missiles

November 3, 2020

The Jerusalem Post:

 

North Korea is building two new submarines, including one capable of firing ballistic missiles, a South Korean lawmaker said on Tuesday, following a closed-door briefing by the South’s National Intelligence Service.

North Korea has a large submarine fleet but only one known experimental submarine capable of carrying a ballistic missile. “One of the submarines that North Korea is building can carry a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM),” Ha Tae-keung, an opposition-party lawmaker on parliament’s intelligence committee, told Reuters. “One is a modified Romeo Class and the other is a new medium-large size one.”

North Korea has been subject to U.N. Security Council sanctions since 2006 over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs…

 

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