SEOUL - North Korea wants to arm its submarines with a ballistic missile. Pyongyang already has a large inventory of land-based ballistic missiles.
Work on a submarine capable of firing a ballistic missile is underway. U.S. intelligence agencies have obtained information on a submarine equipped with a missile launch tube.
South Korean Navy officials doubt Pyongyang current possesses the military technology necessary to deploy a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
North Korea's new ballistic missile submarine could be a modification of an existing Romeo-class design. The Romeo is a diesel-electric submarine class. In addition, the boat could be based on a Soviet-era Golf-class design. Pyongyang purchased large numbers of decommissioned submarines from Russia in the 1990s, including several Golf-class and Romeo-class boats.
North Korea also covertly acquired several Soviet-made SS-N-6 SLBMs. Officials in the U.S. and elsewhere worry North Korea could arm this new SLBM with a nuclear warhead.
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