North Korea Tests New Nuclear-Capable Underwater Drone

Seoul
North Korea has tested a new nuclear-capable underwater attack drone, as leader Kim Jong Un warned joint military drills by South Korea and the U.S. should stop.
During the test, the new North Korean drone cruised underwater at a depth of 80 to 150 meters (260-500 feet) for over 59 hours and detonated a non-nuclear payload in waters off its east coast on Thursday.
Analysts say North Korea is showing off its increasingly diverse nuclear threats to Washington and Seoul, though they are special whether the underwater vehicle is ready for deployment.
North Korea intends to signal to the United States and South Korea that in a war, the potential vectors of nuclear weapons delivery that the allies would have to worry about and target would be vast, said Ankit Panda, senior fellow at the U.S. based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. There would be silos, railcars, submarines, and road-mobile missile launchers. And now they’re adding this underwater torpedo to the mix, he said.
On Monday, the isolated country flew a short-range missile from a buried silo, a departure from usual basing methods. Dubbed Haeil, or tsunami, the new drone system is intended to make sneak attacks in enemy waters and destroy naval strike groups and major operational ports by creating a large radioactive wave through an underwater explosion, the KCNA said. This nuclear underwater attack drone can be deployed at any coast and port or towed by a surface ship for operation.