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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Everything we know about North Korea’s nuclear-powered submarine

North Korea’s newly unveiled nuclear-powered submarine, reportedly made with Russian technology, could pose a major security challenge to neighbour South Korea and its ally the US, experts said.

The Korean Central News Agency on Saturday released photos of what it called an under-construction “nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine", ticking off a key item on a wishlist of sophisticated weaponry that leader Kim Jong Un had vowed, at a major political conference in 2021, to introduce to tackle US-led "military threats".

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