The South Korean Defense Ministry said that North Korea's new submarine could displace more than 2,500 tons and carry up to three ballistic missiles.
As North Korea tests new weapons on land, it's also building what may be its largest homemade submarine yet, potentially capable of carrying multiple missiles.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency first released images last week of supreme leader Kim Jong Un inspecting"a newly built submarine" that"will perform its duty in the operational waters of the East Sea of Korea," reporting that"its operational deployment is near at hand" in a body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.
Citing the ministry, Lee Hye-hoon, chief of the parliamentary intelligence committee, told reporters Wednesday that while North Korea claimed to be building a 3,000-ton class submarine, this appeared to be slightly smaller, yet still possibly the largest ever constructed by the nuclear-armed state and potentially capable of being fitted with up to three submarine-launched ballistic missiles .
Around the time of the Soviet Union's collapse, North Korea reportedly purchased spare equipment, including up to ten-class submarines with a displacement of over 2,800 tons, yet it was uncertain whether these have ever been fielded. In 2017,
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