Pyongyang, Dec. 25 -- Displaying its ongoing military modernisation, the North Korean government has released pictures of the country's first-ever, nearly-complete nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine, which was personally inspected by the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un, according to the DPRK state media KCNA.
Hailing the new naval vessel's construction as an "epoch-making crucial change," Kim, also the General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea, oversaw the construction of the 8,700-tonnage strategic guided missile submarine and vowed to continue to equip the DPRK's navy with nuclear missiles, reports RT.
Emphasising on the need to upgrade the DPRK's naval arsenal in order to bolster its offensive power, he linked the ...