잠수함 북한, 핵잠수함 건조 공개

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지난 토요일 김정은이 핵잠수함 건조 현장을 시찰하는 사진이 공개됐습니다. 배수량은 6천톤~7천톤, 미사일 탑재량은 10발 가량으로 보인다고 한양대학교 문근식 교수(예) 대령)가 분석했네요. 핵미사일 탑재 용도로 보입니다. 

North Korea unveils what it says is a nuclear-powered submarine | CNN

North Korea unveils what it says is a nuclear-powered submarine

By Associated Press

 3 minute read 

Published 1:38 PM EST, Sat March 8, 2025

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, bottom right, visits a shipyard that builds warships at an undisclosed location, in a photo provided by the North Korean government on March 8, 2025. 

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

SEOUL, South KoreaAP — 

North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the US.

State media on Saturday released photos showing what it called “a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine,” as it reported leader Kim Jong Un’s visits to major shipyards where warships are built.

The Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, didn’t provide details on the submarine, but said Kim was briefed on its construction.

The naval vessel appears to be a 6,000-ton-class or 7,000-ton-class one which can carry about 10 missiles, said Moon Keun-sik, a South Korean submarine expert who teaches at Seoul’s Hanyang University. He said the use of the term “the strategic guided missiles” meant it would carry nuclear-capable weapons.

“It would be absolutely threatening to us and the US,” Moon said.

A nuclear-powered submarine was among a long wishlist of sophisticated weaponry that Kim vowed to introduce during a major political conference in 2021 to cope with what he called escalating US-led military threats. Other weapons were solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, spy satellites and multi-warhead missiles. North Korea has since performed a run of testing activities to acquire them.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, bottom right, visits a shipyard that builds warships at an undisclosed location, in a photo provided by the North Korean government on March 8, 2025. 

Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

North Korea obtaining a greater ability to fire missiles from underwater is a worrying development because it’s difficult for its rivals to detect such launches in advance.

Questions about how North Korea, a heavily sanctioned and impoverished country, could get resources and technology to build nuclear-powered submarines have surfaced.

Moon, the submarine expert, said North Korea may have received Russian technological assistance to build a nuclear reactor to be used in the submarine in return for supplying conventional weapons and troops to support Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine.

He also said North Korea could launch the submarine in one or two years to test its capability before its actual deployment.

North Korea has an estimated 70-90 diesel-powered submarines in one of the world’s largest fleets. However, they are mostly aging ones capable of launching only torpedoes and mines, not missiles.

Related articleNorth Korea says it launched new ‘tactical nuclear attack’ submarine. South Korea doubts it works

In 2023, North Korea said it had launched what it called its first “tactical nuclear attack submarine,” but foreign experts doubted the North’s announcement and speculated it was likely a diesel-powered submarine disclosed in 2019. Moon said there has been no confirmation that it has been deployed.

North Korea has conducted a slew of underwater-launched ballistic missile tests since 2016, but all launches were made from the same 2,000-ton-class submarine which has a single launch tube.

Many experts call it a test platform, rather than an operational submarine in active service.

In recent days, North Korea has been dialing up its fiery rhetoric against the US and South Korea ahead of their upcoming annual military drills set to start Monday.

During his visits to the shipyards, Kim said North Korea aims to modernize water-surface and underwater warships simultaneously.

He stressed the need to make “the incomparably overwhelming warships fulfill their mission” to contain “the inveterate gunboat diplomacy of the hostile forces,” KCNA reported Saturday.

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중국쪽에서는 094급 정도의 크기로 추정하는 의견도 있나봅니다. 094급이 8천톤에 SLBM 12발이니까, 얼추 잠정결론들은 최소 6천톤이상 SLBM 10발 정도 탑재하는 본격적인 SSBN으로 보는 것 같습니다.. 그나저나 김정은이 핏값은 확실히 챙기는 것 같네요........(먼산)

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러시아에 야포탄 절반을 지원해줬다고 하니 사실상 북한은 우-러 전쟁의 동맹국 수준이 아닐까 싶을 정도입니다. 확인된 것만 AWACS에 핵잠수함, 신형 수상전투함이고, 플랭커나 펄크럼까지 들어가면... ㅜㅜ

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오잉 @.@

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핵잠수함 기술까지 지원하는 건 정말 상상 외네요.

[강준구]

물론 다 전면 백지화 되었지만, 항모나 합동 화력함 만들 때가 아니었네요.
포세이돈과 MH-60R 추가 도입에 힘을 써야겠습니다. 흑.