Washington, USA (CNN) – North Korea announced, Thursday, that it had tested a new strategic nuclear weapon underwater, according to the official North Korean News Agency.
KCNA reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “personally directed” the underwater test of a strategic nuclear weapon on March 21.
She added, “The mission of the underwater strategic nuclear weapon is to infiltrate operational waters by stealth and cause a large-scale radiological tsunami through an underwater explosion to destroy the enemy’s naval military vessels and main operational ports.”
“This automatically controlled nuclear attack submarine can be deployed underwater at any coast and port or towed by a surface vessel for operation,” she added.
The North’s Korean Central News Agency reported that the underwater nuclear attack robotic submarine “was deployed to conduct exercises off the coast of Ryon County in South Hamgyong Province last Tuesday.”
It added that it “reached the target point in the waters off Hongwon Bay, which had been identified as the enemy’s imaginary port, with an experimental warhead exploding underwater, on Thursday afternoon after sailing at an underwater depth of 80 to 150 meters in the East Sea of Korea for 59 hours and 12 minutes.” “.
North Korea also claimed that it fired two cruise missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead during the weapons test and firing exercise that took place from 21 to 23 March.
CNN has not been able to independently verify these claims.