North Korea has tested a new underwater nuclear attack drone created to release a “radioactive tsunami” that would eliminate enemy naval vessels and ports, state media said Friday.
During the exercises from Tuesday through Thursday the North Korean military deployed and test-fired this latest weapon system, the mission of which is to set off such a “super-scale” lethal wave, the KCNA news agency said.
This nuclear underwater attack drone can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation.
The secret weapon was set in the water off South Hamgyon province Tuesday, and on Thursday it exploded a test warhead.”
KCNA said.
Up to that point, it had moved for 59 hours and 12 minutes at a depth of 80 to 150 meters, the agency reported.
The North’s Central Military Commission of the Worker’s Party commanded the exercises to warn the enemy of an actual nuclear problem and confirm the reliability of the nuclear force for self-defense.
Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader guided this drill and said it should serve as a warning for the United States and South Korea to “recognize the DPRK’s unlimited nuclear war deterrence capability being bolstered up at a greater speed”. DPRK is the acronym for North Korea’s official name.
He expressed his will to make the US imperialists and the South Korean puppet regime plunge into despair for their choice through the high-profile demonstration of the powerful war deterrence.”
KCNA said.
After a record year of weapons tests and rising nuclear threats from North Korea, South Korea, and the United States have ramped up security cooperation, and on March 13 kicked off their largest joint military drills in five years, known as Freedom Shield.
KCNA said that on Wednesday the North fired strategic cruise missiles “tipped with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead”.
KCNA said 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 reported the release of multiple cruise missiles from the North on Wednesday.
That launch comes about a week after North Korea test-fired its largest and most powerful missile, a Hwasong-17 — its second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test this year. The North’s state media defined the ICBM launch as a response to the continuous, “frantic” US-South Korea drills.
North Korea last year announced itself as an “irreversible” nuclear power and Kim recently called for an “exponential” increase in weapons production, including tactical nuclear weapons.
