North Korea explain its latest ballistic missile test was launched from a submarine

Kabar Medsos – North Korea said it successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile from a submarine on Tuesday, state news agency KCNA reported Wednesday.

KCNA said the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was launched from the “8.24 Yongung” sub — the same vessel used to test North Korea’s first SLBM in 2016.

The report said “lots of advanced control guidance technologies” had been included in the missile, which would “greatly contribute to putting the defence technology of the country on a high level and to enhancing the underwater operational capability of our navy.”

Japan and South Korea reported the launch of at least one ballistic missile on Tuesday, which they said was fired from the sea near the port city of Sinpo, Hamgyong province, at about 10 a.m. local time Tuesday (9 p.m. ET Monday). Sinpo is home to a North Korean shipyard.

The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting Wednesday to discuss North Korea in the wake of the latest missile test, a UN diplomat with knowledge of the meeting told CNN. Pyongyang is barred from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons under international law.

North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile was test-fired from an undisclosed location on October 19.

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This picture taken on October 19, 2021 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on October 20, 2021 shows test fire of a new type submarine-launched ballistic missile in an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo by various sources / AFP) / South Korea OUT / —EDITORS NOTE— RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE — / (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Adam Mount, a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said North Korea had previously tested only a small number of SLBMs, despite claiming for a number of years to have the capacity.

Mount said North Korea viewed SLBMs as another method to get past the missile defenses of the United States and its allies, specifically South Korea and Japan. “They’re concerned our missile defenses nullify their deterrent capabilities,” he said.

But Mount added SLBMs are only as good as the vessels that carry them, and the US military was more than a match for North Korea’s noisy submarines.

“The weak link in their submarine missile program is the submarines, and that is an enormous technical challenge for the North Koreans,” he said, adding Pyongyang’s vessels were so outmatched, the SLBMs were effectively a “redundant capability.”

Mixed signals on Korean Peninsula

North Korea’s Tuesday missile test came after weeks of seesawing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which saw growing cooperation between Pyongyang and Seoul at the same time as rising military brinksmanship.

On October 4, Pyongyang agreed to reopen official communications with Seoul for the first time in months. South and North Korea spoke on a joint-communication line on Tuesday shortly before the missile test, a South Korean Unification Ministry official said, but the North did not discuss the launch during the call.

North Korea has also sped up its weapons testing program in recent weeks, including the launch in late September of what it claimed was a new hypersonic missile.

In a statement Tuesday, the US Indo-Pacific Command said it was aware of North Korea’s latest missile launch and would work closely with regional allies to monitor the situation.

“The United States condemns these actions and calls on the DPRK to refrain from any further destabilizing acts,” the statement said, referring to North Korea by its official name. “The US commitment to the defense of (South Korea) and Japan, remains ironclad.”


Korea Utara menjelaskan uji coba rudal balistik terbarunya diluncurkan dari kapal selam

Kabar Medsos – Korea Utara mengatakan pihaknya berhasil melakukan uji coba rudal balistik baru dari kapal selam pada Selasa, kantor berita negara KCNA melaporkan Rabu.

KCNA mengatakan rudal balistik yang diluncurkan kapal selam (SLBM) diluncurkan dari kapal selam “8,24 Yoyung” — kapal yang sama yang digunakan untuk menguji SLBM pertama Korea Utara pada 2016.

Laporan itu mengatakan “banyak teknologi panduan kontrol canggih” telah dimasukkan dalam rudal, yang akan “sangat berkontribusi untuk menempatkan teknologi pertahanan negara pada tingkat tinggi dan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan operasional bawah laut angkatan laut kita.”

Jepang dan Korea Selatan melaporkan peluncuran setidaknya satu rudal balistik pada hari Selasa, yang mereka katakan ditembakkan dari laut dekat kota pelabuhan Sinpo, provinsi Hamgyong, sekitar pukul 10 pagi waktu setempat Selasa (9 malam ET Senin). Sinpo adalah rumah bagi galangan kapal Korea Utara.

Dewan Keamanan PBB akan mengadakan pertemuan tertutup pada hari Rabu untuk membahas Korea Utara setelah uji coba rudal terbaru, seorang diplomat PBB yang mengetahui pertemuan itu mengatakan kepada CNN. Pyongyang dilarang menguji coba rudal balistik dan senjata nuklir di bawah hukum internasional.

Kantor Berita Pusat Korea (KCNA) resmi Korea Utara mengatakan jenis baru rudal balistik yang diluncurkan dari kapal selam telah diuji coba dari lokasi yang dirahasiakan pada 19 Oktober.

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This picture taken on October 19, 2021 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on October 20, 2021 shows test fire of a new type submarine-launched ballistic missile in an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo by various sources / AFP) / South Korea OUT / —EDITORS NOTE— RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE — / (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Adam Mount, seorang rekan senior di Federasi Ilmuwan Amerika di Washington, mengatakan Korea Utara sebelumnya hanya menguji sejumlah kecil SLBM, meskipun mengklaim memiliki kapasitas selama beberapa tahun.

Mount mengatakan Korea Utara memandang SLBM sebagai metode lain untuk melewati pertahanan rudal Amerika Serikat dan sekutunya, khususnya Korea Selatan dan Jepang. “Mereka khawatir pertahanan rudal kami meniadakan kemampuan pencegahan mereka,” katanya.

Tetapi Mount menambahkan SLBM hanya sebagus kapal yang membawanya, dan militer AS lebih dari sekadar tandingan kapal selam Korea Utara yang berisik.

“Hubungan lemah dalam program rudal kapal selam mereka adalah kapal selam, dan itu merupakan tantangan teknis yang sangat besar bagi Korea Utara,” katanya, seraya menambahkan bahwa kapal-kapal Pyongyang sangat tak tertandingi, SLBM secara efektif merupakan “kemampuan yang berlebihan.”

Sinyal campuran di Semenanjung Korea

Uji coba rudal Korea Utara hari Selasa dilakukan setelah berminggu-minggu ketegangan di Semenanjung Korea, yang melihat meningkatnya kerjasama antara Pyongyang dan Seoul pada saat yang sama dengan meningkatnya ambang batas militer.

Pada 4 Oktober, Pyongyang setuju untuk membuka kembali komunikasi resmi dengan Seoul untuk pertama kalinya dalam beberapa bulan. Korea Selatan dan Korea Utara berbicara melalui jalur komunikasi bersama pada hari Selasa sesaat sebelum uji coba rudal, kata seorang pejabat Kementerian Unifikasi Korea Selatan, tetapi Korea Utara tidak membahas peluncuran tersebut selama panggilan tersebut.

Korea Utara juga telah mempercepat program pengujian senjatanya dalam beberapa pekan terakhir, termasuk peluncuran pada akhir September dari apa yang diklaim sebagai rudal hipersonik baru.

Dalam sebuah pernyataan Selasa, Komando Indo-Pasifik AS mengatakan pihaknya mengetahui peluncuran rudal terbaru Korea Utara dan akan bekerja sama dengan sekutu regional untuk memantau situasi.

“Amerika Serikat mengutuk tindakan ini dan meminta DPRK untuk menahan diri dari tindakan destabilisasi lebih lanjut,” kata pernyataan itu, merujuk pada Korea Utara dengan nama resminya. “Komitmen AS untuk pertahanan (Korea Selatan) dan Jepang, tetap kuat.”

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