Is Kim Jong-un planning to use submarines to launch nuclear attack? How 50 North Korean subs ‘went missing’ sparking panic in Seoul and Tokyo
Fears Kim Jong-un is adapting fleet of subs so they can launch nuclear missiles
It comes two years after 50 North Korean submarines ‘went off the radar’
Pyongyang is marking biggest national day called ‘Day of the Sun’ on Saturday
By JULIAN ROBINSON
DailyMail.com
13 April 2017
Kim Jong-un is increasing his underwater military capabilities and may even have plans in place to launch nuclear missiles from a submarine, it has been claimed.
There are fears the North Korean dictator is adapting his fleet of subs so they can fire warheads amid heightened tensions with the West.
It comes two years after 50 vessels, which account for 70 per cent of Pyongyang’s submarines, disappeared off radar sparking panic in South Korea and Japan in the wake of a tense stand-off with South Korea.
According to the Daily Express, Security expert Bruce Klingner told CNBC: ‘We didn’t know where they were at the time. One would hope that we would keep very close tabs on those that could launch the submarine-launched ballistic missiles [SLBMs].
‘All of that is very worrisome because that may very well have a nuclear weapon someday.’
The subs disappeared from the radar following a military stand-off with the South.
At the time, the South Korean news agency Yonhap yesterday quoted a military official as saying the development was ‘ominous’ having earlier vowed to ‘mobilise all our surveillance resources’ to find the vessels.
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