Europe News Desk!! North Korea earlier this week tested an underwater nuclear weapon capable of generating a radioactive tsunami. Pyongyang’s official media gave this information on Friday. Separately, the North also conducted a cruise missile drill using the missiles with a test warhead simulating a nuclear warhead. Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said this in a report. The Central Military Commission of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party (WPK) ordered the exercise from March 21 to March 23 to alert the enemy to the real nuclear threat and to verify the reliability of the nuclear force for self-defense.
The underwater nuclear attack drone was deployed off the coast of Rivwon county, South Hamgyong province on Tuesday and a target in the waters of Hongwon Bay set up as a mock enemy port with the test warhead detonated underwater on Thursday afternoon, he said. Point reached. The drone followed a Pattern-8 course in the East Sea of Korea at a depth of 80 to 150 meters for 59 hours 12 minutes. The North claimed that the drones, designed to stealthily infiltrate operational waters and create a super-scale radioactive tsunami, could be deployed on any coast and harbor to destroy naval striker groups and major ports of its enemies. or may be towed by a surface vessel for operation. The KCNA said North Korea began developing such underground nuclear weapons in 2012 to overcome the military and technological superiority of imperialist invading forces.
The secret weapon was named the Unmanned Underwater Nuclear Attack Craft Hail at the Eighth Congress of the WPK in 2021, and over 50 shakedowns have been carried out in the past two years. According to KCNA, on Wednesday North Korea also tested strategic cruise missiles, tipped with test warheads simulating nuclear warheads. It said the Hwasal-1 strategic cruise missile and two Hwasal-2 strategic cruise missiles launched in South Hamgyong province accurately hit the intended target in the East Sea. The missiles flew in their programmed 1,500 km- and 1,800 km-long elliptical and Pattern-8 orbits for 7,557 to 7,567 seconds and 9,118 to 9,129 seconds, respectively. South Korea’s military earlier said it detected several cruise missiles being launched from the North’s eastern city of Hamhung on Wednesday morning.
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