North Korea’s Nuclear Triad

Warning that North Korea is now developing BALLISTIC SUBMARINES to carry nuclear warheads

Kim Jong-un, left, and a Korean missile launch, rightGETTY/REUTERS

Kim Jong-un is developing ballistic submarines Madcap dictator Kim Jong-un has authorised a huge expansion of the country’s main military dockyards in preparation for the construction of a fleet on new submarines.

The move will raise fears that the mentally unstable dictator is attempting to construct an at sea nuclear deterrent to rival Britain’s Trident programme.

The mentally unstable dictator, who is attempting to develop viable nuclear missiles, has upped his rhetoric against the West in recent months and has persistently threatened to start World War Three.
Now analysis of the Sinpo South Shipyard, on the country’s eastern coast, shows that the North Korean navy is clearing a huge harbour and has put up a massive new construction hall.

New satellite images of the country’s naval base shows huge expansion

Experts at 38 North, a program at the US-Korea Institute, have examined satellite imagery which shows the true extent of the secretive country’s ambitious naval plans.

At the moment North Korea has a single small, outdated Gorae-class submarine which is neither large nor technologically advanced enough to launch nuclear missiles.

But the analysts warned: “The status of work inside the hall remains unclear, but when it is finished North Korea will be able to build and launch new submarines much larger than the existing Gorae-class, including a new class of ballistic missile submarines.”

They also observed that: “Moored alongside the launching way are three small vessels and a barge working to clear underwater obstacles.”

Madcap Kim is trying to develop nuclear warheads

The US and South Korea have beefed up their anti-missile defences

It was a Gorae-class submarine that conducted a test ballistic missile launch earlier this month.
Like all other North Korean launches to date it ended in failure with the rocket crashing back into the sea, but military experts fear that the country is getting closer to developing an operational warhead.
The reclusive country has carried out three such tests since December despite being slapped with punitive UN sanctions designed to undermine its nuclear ambitions.

North Korea’s sole submarine is a dated 2,000-ton, 67 meter-long vessel which is believed to be based on old Eastern Bloc designs.

But according to defence experts at IHS Jane’s, the country is now constructing two 150-meter long pens capable of housing much newer designs.

The analysts said: “Satellite imagery from 8 May 2016 revealed that construction on the pens had progressed to the extent that portions of them were being covered with earth.”

They added that all evidence indicates that the work at Sinpo South, which is believed to have begun in 2009, suggests that it is currently “the largest active military building project in North Korea”.
And they said that although the country’s military is also conducting regular missile tests from land-based sites, “the massive investment North Korea is making into building the new submarine bunker at Sinpo suggests it will be used to protect its most prized naval asset – the ballistic missile submarine capability it is currently developing”.

The experts at IHS Jane’s suggested that the new docks could make it simpler for North Korean submarines to slip into the water unmonitored, creating “uncertainty” and a “deterrent” to opposing forces.