North Korea confirms it examined new nuclear-capable underwater assault drone

North Korea says it examined ‘Haeil’, a brand new nuclear-capable underwater assault drone system that may trigger an explosion by producing a radioactive tsunami.

Seoul,UPDATED: Mar 24, 2023 07:04 IST

North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and his daughter Kim Ju Ae watch a missile drill at an undisclosed location. (Photo: KCNA by Reuters)

By Reuters: North Korea has examined a brand new nuclear-capable underwater assault drone that may generate a radioactive tsunami, state media reported on Friday, because it blamed joint navy drills by South Korea and the US for elevating tensions within the area.

During the drill, the brand new North Korean drone cruised underwater at a depth of 80 to 150 metres (260-500 ft) for over 59 hours and detonated in waters off its east coast on Thursday, North Korean state information company KCNA stated.

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Dubbed “Haeil”, or tsunami, the drone system is meant to make sneak assaults in enemy waters and destroy naval striker teams and main operational ports by making a super-scale radioactive wave by an underwater explosion, the KCNA stated.

“This nuclear underwater attack drone can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation,” the information company stated, including the check had been overseen by chief Kim Jong Un.

It is unclear whether or not North Korea has totally developed miniaturised nuclear warheads wanted to suit on its smaller weapons.

Analysts say perfecting smaller warheads would most certainly be a key purpose if the North resumes nuclear testing.

Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, stated Pyongyang’s newest declare to have a nuclear-capable underwater drone “should be met with skepticism.”

“But it is clearly intended to show that the Kim regime has so many different means of nuclear attack that any preemptive or decapitation strike against it would fail disastrously,” he stated.

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CRUISE MISSILES

KCNA additionally confirmed the North fired cruise missiles on Wednesday to apply finishing up tactical nuclear assault missions, confirming earlier studies from the South Korean navy.

The cruise missiles had been tipped with a “test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead,” and flew 1,500-1,800 km (930-1120 miles), in keeping with KCNA.

The drill verified the reliability of its management gadgets and detonators in a mid-air explosion and served as an illustration of one other navy assault functionality, KCNA added.

The North stated the newest weapon check and drills had no destructive impression on safety of the neighbouring nations.

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The newest assessments befell as South Korean and US troops launched their largest amphibious touchdown drills in years, involving a U.S. amphibious assault ship, on Monday.

North Korea stated the U.S. and South Korea had been driving the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula to an “irreversibly dangerous point” with their workout routines, and that such strikes require its forces to “gird themselves for an all-out war and bolster up its nuclear force both in quality and quantity on a priority basis.”

The U.S. ship, USS Makin Island, docked at a naval base in South Korea’s southeastern port metropolis of Busan on Wednesday, carrying 10 F-35 stealth fighters.

Pyongyang has lengthy bristled at workout routines carried out by South Korean and U.S. forces, saying they’re preparation for an invasion of the North.

South Korea and the U.S. say the workout routines are purely defensive and have criticised the assessments as destablising and in breach of U.N. sanctions.

The allies concluded 11 days of their common springtime workout routines, known as Freedom Shield 23, on Thursday, however they produce other subject coaching workout routines persevering with.

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Mar 24, 2023