SEOUL, Dec 25 : Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), guided the building of an 8,700-ton nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Thursday.
Kim stressed the significance of building a strategic nuclear attack submarine, and “clarified the steadfast will and the strategic and tactical policy to steadily push forward with the nuclear weaponization of the navy,” said the report.
He said that South Korea’s nuclear submarine development plans would worsen instability on the Korean Peninsula. Kim also mentioned a strategic plan to reorganize the naval forces and establish new units, according to the report.
(UNI)
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