North Korea building new submarine’

AFP, SEOUL: Recent satellite imagery suggests North Korea may be building a new, larger submarine for ballistic missiles, a US think tank has said, as the isolated state pushes its nuclear weapons programme.
The news comes after the North in August test-fired a submarine-launched missile (SLBM) 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, which leader Kim Jong-Un said put the US mainland and the Pacific within striking range.
“Commercial satellite imagery strongly suggests that a naval construction program is underway at North Korea’s Sinpo South Shipyard, possibly to build a new submarine,” the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said on its closely-watched website, 38 North.“If this activity is indeed to build a new submarine, it would appear to be larger than North Korea’s GORAE-class experimental ballistic missile submarine, which has a beam of approximately 7 meters.”

 

North Korea building new submarine

AFP, SEOUL: Recent satellite imagery suggests North Korea may be building a new, larger submarine for ballistic missiles, a US think tank has said, as the isolated state pushes its nuclear weapons programme. The news comes after the North in August test-fired a submarine-launched missile (SLBM) 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) towards Japan, which leader Kim Jong-Un said put the US mainland and the Pacific within striking range. Commercial satellite imagery strongly suggests that a naval construction program is underway at North Koreas Sinpo South Shipyard, possibly to build a new submarine, the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said on its closely-watched website, 38 North.If this activity is indeed to build a new submarine, it would appear to be larger than North Koreas GORAE-class experimental ballistic missile submarine, which has a beam of approximately 7 meters.