North Korea continues the process of nuclearizing its army, and the communication company that accompanies it. Pyongyang said on Saturday April 8 that it had carried out a new test of an underwater nuclear attack drone. The test of this “underwater strategic weapon system” was held from April 4 to 7, the official KCNA news agency said. The Haeil-2 type craft traveled a “simulated underwater distance of 1,000 km”she clarified.
The weapon has “accurately exploded under water”adds KCNA, saying that this test “proves the reliability of the submarine strategic weapon system and its fatal attack capability”.
North Korea had announced, on March 23, a first test of this unprecedented device, likely according to it to “to produce a large-scale radioactive tsunami”.
Multiplication of armament tests
This new test is a response to joint military exercises by South Korea and the United States. Seoul and Washington carried out joint aerial maneuvers on April 5, involving at least one American B-52H bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons, according to the South Korean army. Pyongyang considers, for its part, that these exercises are rehearsals for an invasion of its territory and multiplies the tests of armaments. The regime notably claimed to have launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on March 16.
North Korea declared itself a nuclear power last year. “irreversible” and in March its leader Kim Jong-un ordered his troops to intensify their exercises for a “real war”. He also called for accelerating the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons.
Satellite images taken a month ago showed a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear complex, Yongbyon, according to the US-based organization 38 North.