(ProsperNews.net) – North Korea is rapidly expanding its military repertoire and now has underwater drones capable of delivering nuclear weapons. The secretive country said it is expanding its nuclear arsenal and has multiple submarine vessels designed to carry out attacks on enemy ships and ports. In March, the Korean Central News Agency said North Korea had carried out its first weapons tests and could launch a “radioactive tsunami.”
The new drone, named Haeil (Korean for “tsunami”), can be launched from the coast or brought to sea by ship. It will “stealthily infiltrate into operational waters and make a super-scale radioactive tsunami through underwater explosions,” the news agency claimed.
During the test, the drone is said to have descended to depths of 492 feet in a trial that lasted 60 hours; the result was the destruction of a makeshift enemy port and a very pleased dictator Kim Jong Un.
The news of the drones comes as Kim Jong Un orders extra production at munitions factories and nourishes a deepening relationship with Russia that is worrying the United States. Strategic military intelligence analyst Rebekah Koffler noted the alliance between the two nations and believes North Korea will continue to be “belligerent” over the next decade, but she is doubtful it will launch any attacks.
“Pyongyang is more likely to use the strategy of coercion and covert action, rather than traditional military force, including nuclear weapons, to achieve its political and security objectives,” she said.
Kim Jong Un regularly threatens to use nuclear weapons against the United States and condemns America’s close relations with its arch-enemy South Korea – which the US supported in the Korean War in the 1950s. The latest threat was in July this year when defense minister Kang Sun Nam said the US was deliberately stoking tensions in the region by sending a nuclear-armed ballistic missile to South Korea. The minister said this was enough to justify a nuclear response by Kim Jong Un’s regime.
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