The new underwater weapon is designed to “stealthily infiltrate into operational waters” and target naval striker groups and enemy ports, North Korea claimed.
“This nuclear underwater attack drone can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation,” KCNA said in a statement. A test warhead exploded in the waters off Hongwon Bay on Thursday afternoon, North Korea claimed. , a series of military drills around the Korean Peninsula that began on March 11. The U.S., India, Japan, Canada and South Korea also began Sea Dragon 23 last week, an anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Indo-Pacific region.
North Korea lashed out at the “U.S. imperialists and the South Korean puppet regime of traitors” for the exercises, saying that the political situation on the Korean Peninsula is at “an irreversibly dangerous point.”North Korea also fired multiple strategic cruise missiles from the South Hamgyong province on Wednesday.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley testified before Congress on Thursday that China remains the U.S.’s “number one long-term geostrategic security challenge,” but noted that North Korea is also a major threat in the region. and nuclear weapons development pose real threats to our homeland as well as allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific,” Milley told the House Appropriations Committee.
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