North Korea this week tested a new nuclear attack underwater drone in response to joint military exercises conducted by the United States and South Korea, the country’s state agency reported on Friday.
During the maneuvers, which took place from Tuesday to Thursday, the North Korean army deployed and tested this new weapon system, whose objective is “cause a large-scale radioactive tsunami” with an underwater explosion, and destroy enemy ships and ports, according to the news agency KCNA.
“This nuclear submarine attack drone can be deployed on any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation.said the KCNA.
He “secret weapon” was placed in the water off South Hamgyon province on Tuesday, and detonated a test warhead on Thursday, the agency said.
Until then, it had sailed for 59 hours and 12 minutes at a depth of between 80 and 150 meters, the agency reported.
The Northern Labor Party’s Central Military Commission ordered the exercises “to alert the enemy of a real nuclear crisis and to verify the reliability of the nuclear force for self-defense.”
After a record year of weapons tests and escalating nuclear threats from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington have intensified their cooperation on security and on March 13 they began their largest joint military exercises in five years, known as Shield of Freedom.
KCNA said the North fired strategic cruise missiles on Wednesday “with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead.”
KCNA said that two “Hwasal-1” type strategic cruise missiles and two “Hwasal-2” type strategic cruise missiles, launched in South Hamgyong province, accurately hit the target set in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.
The South Korean military had reported on Wednesday the launch of multiple cruise missiles from the North.
(With information from AFP)
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