North Korean leader Kim Jong Un staged war games this week that culminated in tactical nuclear strikes and the conquest of South Korea, the country’s state-controlled media reported, while also calling for an unexpected upgrade of the country’s naval capabilities.
tested a giant underwater drone armed with a nuclear warhead, and claims to have tested underwater ballistic missile launched from a submarine.‘s father and grandfather, the North Korean navy lagged behind the ground-based military assets and the country’s elaborate intelligence operations when it came to funding. But regional events — and major naval upgrades by China, Japan, Australia and India — are apparently pushing the current North Korean leader in a new direction.
Ironically, South Korea has been the odd man out so far in the East Asia maritime arms race. Though it has proven domestic ballistic missile submarine capabilities and helicopter carriers,Still, it fields a more high-tech force than the North’s decrepit navy, whose patrol boats have manually-rotated gun turrets, compared to the South’s electrically operated miniguns, said Chun In-bum, a retired general. Even with greater investments, Mr.
“They’d need the capacity to build bigger ships with stealth technologies and new weapons,” said Oleg Kiriyanov, CEO of-based think tank Asia Risk Research Center. “Frankly, that is very expensive, so I don’t think so.” But there are some clear payoffs: for one, light naval forces can conduct hit-and-run, coastal attacks without sparking an all-out war.
“If you are thinking about incremental escalations, naval clashes solve that,” said Mr. Go. “We have seen them in the Yellow Sea, and this is exactly the kind of escalation that solvesFurthermore, deploying nuclear arms at sea makes it harder for adversaries to take out“Putting them on submarines and ships gives them additional capabilities, of course: range and survivability,” said Mr. Kiriyanov.
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