North Korea threat: Kim Jong-un building two submarines – one can fire ballistic missiles

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The information was released by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service that has been monitoring the North’s large submarine fleet. It is thought only one of the experimental submarines can carry an ICBM. Ha Tae-keung, an opposition party lawmaker on parliament’s intelligence committee, said: “One of the submarines North Korea is building can carry a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

“One is a modified Romeo Class and the other is a new medium-large size one.”

North Korea is forbidden to construct nuclear or ballistic missiles under a UN Security Council sanction from 2006.

US President Donald Trump has met the North Korean leader three times since 2018, but he has not made the progress he planned to.

North Korean state media broadcast Kim Jong-un visiting a submarine construction site in July 2019.

When analysts viewed the footage they suggested the size of the vessel indicated it was designed to carry ballistic missiles.

On October 10 it showcased a submarine ballistic missile in its military parade in Pyongyang.
At the military parade to celebrate the founding of North Korea’s communist party, they revealed a total of 76 missiles.

These included long-range weapons capable of travelling many hundreds of miles.

Ankit Panda, senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said: “It is the largest road-mobile liquid-fueled missile anywhere, to be clear.”

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Harry Kazianis, senior director of Korean studies at the Washington DC-based Center for the National Interest said: “What North Korea has shown us, what appears to be a new liquid-fueled ICBM.

“It seems to be a derivative of what was tested back in late 2017.

“The missie was known as the Hwasong-15.

“It is much bigger and clearly more powerful than anything in the DPRK’s arsenal.”

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