Report Claims North Korea Developing Submarine Launched Missiles

I am skeptical on whether or not the North Koreans are actually developing this technology or not:

Trident missile launch photo from Flickr user RNRobert.

South Korea’s military confirmed Sunday it has detected signs of North Korea’s development of a submarine-based ballistic missile launch system.

In a report to an opposition lawmaker, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said there is an indication that the North is developing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

“There is no intelligence yet that North Korea has an SLBM in operation. But the possibility of a North Korean submarine equipped with an SLBM has been detected recently,” the JCS said in the document submitted to Rep. Jin Sung-joon of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy.  [Yonhap]

You can read more at the link, but developing a submarine based missile launch capability is very difficult and why so few nations have this capability.  It just makes me wonder if the North Koreans are just putting out fake mock ups in order to confuse intelligence analysts.  They have been accused of doing this in the past.

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