North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during a visit to a nuclear submarine factory, vowed to counter the “threat” of South Korea producing its own such vessels.
Photos published by KCNA showed Kim walking alongside a purportedly 8,700-ton submarine at an indoor assembly site, surrounded by officials and his daughter Kim Ju Ae.
Pyongyang would view Seoul developing nuclear subs as “an offensive act severely violating its security and maritime sovereignty”, Kim Jong Un said, according to KCNA.
It was therefore “indispensable” to “accelerate the radical development of the modernization and nuclear weaponization of the naval force”, he said.
Kim clarified a naval reorganization plan and learned about research into “new underwater secret weapons“, KCNA said, without giving details. (AFP)
