South Korean Navy Wants to Build A Nuclear Powered Submarine
|The ROK Navy thinks a nuclear powered submarine is a way to counter North Korea’s nuclear threat:
South Korea has started a feasibility review for the building of a nuclear-powered submarine amid North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats, government sources said Sunday.
The Navy has commissioned a private institute to find ways to resolve international restrictions in building a nuclear submarine with the results to come out as early as the end of this year, sources said.
The government and the military are likely to finalize whether to construct a nuclear-powered sub based on the study.
The move comes as North Korea has been advancing its nuclear and missile capability by firing two intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). [Yonhap]
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Why? Just because it has the word nuclear in it?
Might not want to buy one from this guy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/world/europe/submarine-kim-wall-murder.html