Korea fails in submarine missile test

The North’s test-fire of an SLBM in May caused South Korea to heighten its defense posture.

The North Korean Army launched the missile on Saturday in the Sea of Japan without the projectile managing to reach the water surface, EFE news reported.

Capt. Kang Dong-kil, in charge of the construction, said that the new military base was 96 percent complete and was set to open in January, as cited by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

In a darkened “war room”, dozens of South Korea’s brightest college students are practicing hacking one another as part of a government program to train them to battle some of the world’s best – the shadowy techno-soldiers of Kim Jong Un’s regime. The meeting will be held on December 11 in the North Korean city of Kaesong, which is close to its border with South Korea.

Pyongyang has been trying to develop nuclear capability as well as missile technology. Saturday’s failed test, if it was indeed an attempt to test the ejection readiness of the Sinpo-class, indicates that North Korea is making steady progress. Kim has been photographed observing other rocket and missile tests in the past. It’s with this understanding that North Korea has looked for more mobile solutions to its strategic military goals including road-mobile launchers in addition to submarines. Pundits at the time speculated that the North had solved the most hard problem in the submarine-launched missile development. Reportedly, barber shops in North Korea are queued up because people do not want to face the wrath of the authorities. “It needs a considerable amount of time to ideal a missile”. Whether or not the United States will ever strike a nuclear North Korea is anyone’s guess but it’s hard to see the United States allowing a nuclear weapon to join North Korea’s navy.