N.Korea derides South's submarine-launched missiles

20/9/2021 13:29

        A North Korean military think tank on Monday dismissed South Korea's recently tested submarine-launched ballistic missile as clumsy and rudimentary but warned its development would rekindle cross-border tension.
        
        Both South and North Korea, which have been developing increasingly sophisticated weapons amid stalled efforts to ease tension on the peninsula, tested ballistic missiles on Wednesday.
        
        Jang Chang Ha, chief of the Academy of the National Defence Science, a North Korean state-run weapons development and procurement centre, said in a commentary on the official KCNA news agency that media photographs of the latest South Korean missile showed a "sloppy" weapon that did not even have the shape of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).
        
        The missile seemed to be a version of the South's Hyunmoo surface-to-surface ballistic missiles with the warhead part an imitation of India's K-15 SLBM, Jang said.