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Images suggest North Korea 'aggressive' work on ballistic missile submarine - institute

 

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Second Plenum of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang October 8, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS.

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken this month of a North Korean naval shipyard indicate Pyongyang is pursuing an "aggressive schedule" to build its first operational ballistic missile submarine, a U.S. institute reported on Thursday.

 

Washington-based 38 North, a North Korea monitoring project, cited images taken on Nov. 5 showing activity at North Korea's Sinpo South Shipyard.

 

"The presence of what appear to be sections of a submarine's pressure hull in the yards suggests construction of a new submarine, possibly the SINPO-C ballistic missile submarine - the follow-on to the current SINPO-class experimental ballistic missile submarine," 38 North said in a report.

 

The report said that throughout 2017 there had been continued movement of parts and components into and out of two parts yards adjacent to the constructions halls in the center of the shipyard.

 

It said the Nov. 5 images showed two large circular objects that could be sections of a submarine's pressure hull. It said these appeared larger than those for North Korea's ROMEO-class attack submarine.

 

Images of a test stand indicated continued testing of a mechanism for ejection launch of missiles from a submarine. However, the report said no activity could be seen suggesting preparations for a new test of a submarine-launched missile.

 

North Korea has been working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the United States, sparking a major international crisis in which U.S. President Donald Trump has said that all options are under consideration, including military ones.

 

North Korea is also thought to be working on a solid-fuel missile for submarine launches.

 

Last month, The Diplomat magazine quoted a U.S. government source as saying U.S. military intelligence had detected a new diesel-electric submarine under construction at Sinpo and dubbed it the Sinpo-C. It said the submarine was likely a larger successor to North Korea's single experimental ballistic missile submarine.

 

North Korea has conducted dozens of missile tests this year and its largest and biggest nuclear test on Sept. 3. The past two months have seen a relative lull and it has not tested a missile since firing one over Japan on Sept. 15.

 

Another article in The Diplomat last month quoted a U.S. government source as saying that North Korea had tested a new solid fuel engine sometime between Oct. 15 and Oct. 21. U.S. intelligence officials have declined to comment on this.

 

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom; editing by Grant McCool)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-17

[hugocnx]

Koreans are copy cats. This one is a Fats Domino look alike?

 

 

Edited November 17, 2017 by hugocnx

[hugocnx]

Gotta be on their death list by now.

[IAMHERE]

I bet they stole the blue prints via the internet or China/Russia gave them the plans.

[BuaBS]

Propaganda against NK . I've seen the images . People with a lot of imagination and an agenda  "suggest "aggressive" work.

Edited November 17, 2017 by BuaBS

[Morch]

5 minutes ago, BuaBS said:

Propaganda against NK . I've seen the images . People with a lot of imagination and an agenda  "suggest "aggresive" work.

 

Propaganda against? Hardly - it acknowledges North Korea's naval engineering acumen.

Are you a naval intelligence expert?

[annabel]

Pyongyang or rather Pigongyang as I refer to him by his looks needs to be sent to where all  the other ones believe they will meet some 100 virgins and be saved .... just don't know if they also accept PIGS..??? Sad if they don't nah?

[tifino]

 

...powered off potted human boiled fat fumes

 

and...

I wondered how long it'll take them to overcome that missile range problem?

 especially given the limitations of crowd-sourcing materiel from the opposition population

[Srikcir]

Easier to deliver a submarine to the US West Coast than an ICBM.

North Korea already has short & medium range nuclear capable missiles.

Thence, warning of a nuclear launch will be minutes and low altitude apogee impossible to intercept.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Morch said:

 

Propaganda against? Hardly - it acknowledges North Korea's naval engineering acumen.

Are you a naval intelligence expert?

I'm not a naval expert, but this sounds a lot like the story of weapons of mass destruction of Iraq. 

 

Don't let the USA to have a fake reason to attack North Korea and cause a huge and potentially nuclear war, simply because some folks who gain a lot of money from war, wishes so. 

 

Long sentence, read it again. 

This stupid war mongering must stop. There are very few people who gain from these conflicts. There are way more people who suffer the consequences of these conflicts. 

[craigt3365]

8 hours ago, oilinki said:

I'm not a naval expert, but this sounds a lot like the story of weapons of mass destruction of Iraq. 

 

Don't let the USA to have a fake reason to attack North Korea and cause a huge and potentially nuclear war, simply because some folks who gain a lot of money from war, wishes so. 

 

Long sentence, read it again. 

This stupid war mongering must stop. There are very few people who gain from these conflicts. There are way more people who suffer the consequences of these conflicts. 

Impossible to compare this to Iraq.

 

Yes, this stupid war mongering must stop.  Have NK quit developing nuclear weapons.  Maybe also get rid of some of the 3,000 pieces of artillery they have on their border that's pointed at Seoul.

[Morch]

12 hours ago, oilinki said:

I'm not a naval expert, but this sounds a lot like the story of weapons of mass destruction of Iraq. 

 

Don't let the USA to have a fake reason to attack North Korea and cause a huge and potentially nuclear war, simply because some folks who gain a lot of money from war, wishes so. 

 

Long sentence, read it again. 

This stupid war mongering must stop. There are very few people who gain from these conflicts. There are way more people who suffer the consequences of these conflicts. 

 

You could have stopped right after your first five words.

 

Instead, you went for the standard deflection, citing something which happened quite a while back. Do you imagine it applies for all situations? And that this holds true forever? No countries develop advanced weapons because of it?

 

Calling anything that doesn't fit your views "warmongering" is the easy way out. Guess the same was said by some before North Korea conducted its first nuclear experiment, or launched its first long range missile.