North Korea says it has retested its atomic submarine drone

the means of North Korea They reported today that the regime has once again tested its submarine drone with the capacity to generate radioactive tsunamis at a time marked by repeated weapons tests by Pyongyang and the great military maneuvers that Seoul and Washington are holding these days in the south of the peninsula.

The test of this guided torpedo was carried out between March 25 and 27 according to the state agency KCNA, which also reported that the North Korean leader, kim jong uninspected on Tuesday different models of atomic warheads at the headquarters of the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute in Pyongyang.

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The announcement comes after the North Korean regime reported the existence of this new underwater weapon last Friday, an apparent retaliation to the large spring exercises that the allies are carrying out south of the 38th parallel.

The drone, which KCNA refers to as “haeil-1″ (Tsunami-1 in Korean), was tested on the east coast and detonated its dummy warhead in the target area after traveling 600 kilometers following a course “irregular and elliptical” for 41 hours and 27 minutes.

The test served to verify thereliability and safety“of the gun and in it”all the tactical and technical specifications of the system and its technical underwater navigation indices were correctly estimated”.

Yesterday seoul He stated that he doubts the capabilities of this drone, similar to the Poseidon Russian, and assured that he considers that it is in a very early development phase.

In turn, KCNA reported that Kim “got acquainted” with “the technical specifications of new tactical nuclear weapons according to the targets to be reached and their structural and operational characteristics and their compatibility with different weapon systems” during his visit to the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute.

Kim was also informed of the progress to computerize the combined nuclear weapons management system “haekbangsoe” (Korean for “Nuclear Trigger”), “whose scientific accuracy, reliability and safety have been strictly tested in the recent combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack”, the news detailed, referring to an exercise that the regime carried out ten days ago.

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KCNA also released photos of Kim inspecting various models of tactical nuclear warheads supposedly designed to be fitted to Hwasal-1 and Hwasal-2 strategic cruise missiles and KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles.

In this sense, the North Korean news agency also reported that the two missiles that the regime fired on Monday were “equipped with simulated nuclear warheads” and that they exploded about 500 meters above the simulated target on an islet off the city of Kim Chaekon the northeast coast, as published photos show.

Source: Elcomercio

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