SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new submarine, paying special attention to its combat weapons systems, a week after the ...
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new submarine, paying special attention to its combat weapons systems, a week after the nuclear-armed state warned looming military drills in the South could derail nuclear talks with Washington.
The submarine will be deployed to the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, the North's official KCNA news agency said Tuesday , without disclosing its specifications or the location of the inspection."The Supreme Leader learned in detail about its operational and tactical data and combat weapon systems," KCNA said.
The inspection comes a week after Pyongyang warned next month's US-South Korea military drills"will affect" proposed working-level nuclear talks with Washington that Kim and President Trump agreed to pursue during an impromptu meeting in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the two Koreas on Jun 30.
Failure to reach an agreement over sanctions relief and what the North was willing to give in return led to the collapse of the leaders' second summit, which was held in February in Hanoi.
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