North Korea launched its first operational "tactical nuclear attack submarine" and assigned it to the fleet that patrols the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan, state media said.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that arming the navy with nuclear weapons was an urgent task.Submarine No. 841 - named Hero Kim Kun Ok after a North Korean historical figure - will be one of the main "underwater offensive means of the naval force" of North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un said at the launch ceremony.The vessel appears to be a modified Soviet-era Romeo-class submarine, which North Korea acquired from China in the 1970s and began producing domestically, news agency Reuters reported.Vann Van Diepen, a former US government weapons expert who works with the 38 North project in Washington, said, "When this thing is field deployed, it's going to be quite vulnerable to allied anti-submarine warfare.
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