South Korean Ministry of Defense: North Korea is ready to test a submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile

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The Ministry of Defense of South Korea has spread information that the DPRK is going to test submarine-launched intercontinental liquid-fuel ballistic missiles in the near future. In addition, according to the military department, Pyongyang intends to conduct another nuclear test next spring. Details of North Korea's military plans are contained in a special ministry report drawn up for a parliamentary audit that began hours after North Korea launched a medium-range ballistic missile that flew over Japan.

North Korea is preparing for test launches designed to master the technologies of a new liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile and a submarine-launched ballistic missile, and is constantly striving to modernize the capabilities of solid-propellant missiles

- according to a press release from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Korea.

The South Korean Defense Ministry stressed that Pyongyang is still capable of conducting nuclear tests. The nearest, the seventh in a row, can be held as early as May next year, according to the South Korean military department. At the same time, it is not known whether this will be a test of a low-yield nuclear charge or whether the DPRK will demonstrate an atomic weapon great destructive power.

The ministry said that against the backdrop of a growing military threat from the DPRK, Seoul intends to further strengthen the so-called "three-level containment system." It includes the Kill Chain pre-emptive strike program, according to which, in the event of a possible attack by the DPRK on South Korea, the South Korean army will strike at the enemy’s leadership. To protect against missiles fired from the territory of the DPRK, Seoul uses a layered air defense and missile defense system. With such an attempt at explanation, the concept of a "preemptive" strike sounds strange.

Recall that this morning, the DPRK launched a ballistic missile that flew over the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori and fell outside the exclusive economic zone of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. This launch caused a big stir in Tokyo and Seoul. The Japanese government reportedly activated the J-Alert early warning system for residents of the northernmost main island of Hokkaido and the northeastern prefecture of Aomori in connection with the North Korean missile launch. Air raid signals were sounded in the settlements, residents were urged to take refuge in shelters.

Comments

[Kostadinov]

North Korea intends to test submarine-launched intercontinental liquid-fuel ballistic missiles in the near future

We are talking about two different missiles, not one. At the same time, tests of the new liquid-fuel ICBM have already been carried out twice this year, and the DPRK's submarine-based missiles are all solid-fuel and the new one will be like that.

[rotmistr60]

and constantly strives to modernize the capabilities of solid rockets

And he does it right. To live with such neighbors - you need to be ready for anything. And if, moreover, Uncle Sam periodically sends his AUGs.

[Arkady007]

With such a pace of development of the defense industry from the Koreans, we will soon begin to purchase UAVs from them.

[Vitaly161]

they have everything of their own, from the Internet to a smartphone (not the last iPhone, of course, but not a push-button tapik) they don’t live richly, but they’re smart, and China helps them a lot by the way

[Sergej1972]

The PRC helps them in a dosed manner. And periodically criticizes the domestic and foreign policy of the DPRK. But moderately.

[fiv]

And they are not up to theft, so a lot of things turn out in the defense industry. Yes, they learn from the mistakes of others. Well, the Koreans, after all. Well done.

[fiv]

For South Korea, the best way to neutralize the military threat from North Korea is to send in the US and begin the process of unifying Korea. Everyone will only benefit from this. Except the states, in their opinion.

[xASPIDx]

And how do you know that they did not initiate it, although indirectly there has been talk for a long time that southerners and northerners have long been on a short footing and are in contact.

[fiv]

What do you think, did South Korea recently conduct military exercises from the United States and launch missiles or with S. Korea? Here is your answer

[Prax1]

I hope she goes off course and arrives by bank

[U-58]

The progress of rocket science in the DPRK is simply amazing.
The pace is comparable to modern Russia.
In a country without special natural resources, in a country where hunger has not been defeated, where there is no historically established engineering school - rockets, atomic bombs.
Somewhere, something fantastic.

[Kostadinov]

Quote: Arkady007

With such a pace of development of the defense industry from the Koreans, we will soon begin to purchase UAVs from them.

And even now it is possible. Iranian UAVs are a copy of North Korean, not Chinese. In the DPRK, drones were shown at the parade in 2013 and at the exhibition of military equipment in 2021. Such an exhibition in Pyongyang will also take place this year, and UAVs can be ordered there with delivery before the end of the year. In addition to drones, you can also purchase MLRS 107; 122 mm; 240 mm; 300 mm and 600 mm, guns from 76 mm to 170 mm with ammunition, modern ATGMs and MANPADS and so on.

[To state]

Eun steers .... well done Koreans. The Japanese are already sitting in the basements

[Vadim Topal Pasha]

Quote: U-58

The progress of rocket science in the DPRK is simply amazing.
The pace is comparable to modern Russia.
In a country without special natural resources, in a country where hunger has not been defeated, where there is no historically established engineering school - rockets, atomic bombs.
Somewhere, something fantastic.

I'm afraid to cause you cognitive dissonance. Look at how many and in what years people migrated to the DPRK from the Krasnoyarsk Territory or from Ukraine ... And, most importantly, who they are by education and profession.
What was done by Stalin and Beria is alive and developing.
However, this is only the tip of the iceberg. If some branches of science, where the DPRK is not just ahead of the rest of the planet, but simply the rest of the planet is not aware of such sections. Maximum-describes in science fiction.

[Fizik13]

It seems like North Korea has already fired its rocket through Japan, and what's the problem? The rocket flew above 100 km over the territory of Japan.
Satellites of UNFRIENDLY COUNTRIES also fly above us!