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ROK deeply worries about DPRK's test-firing of submarine missile

(Xinhua) Updated: 2015-05-11 14:00

SEOUL -?The Republic of?Korea's military expressed deep worry Monday about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's test-firing of a ballistic missile from its submarine.

"Our military is deeply and seriously worried about the underwater test-firing of a ballistic missile conducted by North Korea (DPRK) last week,"Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told a regular press briefing.

Kim urged Pyongyang to immediately stop developing the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that would destabilize the Korean Peninsula and the Northeast Asian region.

The DPRK's official KCNA news agency reported Saturday that it succeeded in test-firing a ballistic missile from a submarine, which was overseen by top leader Kim Jong-un.

It was believed to be an initial phase of the SLBM, or an underwater launch of a ballistic missile, the spokesman said, noting that it would take four to five years to complete the development given the cases of advanced countries.

The DPRK's SLBM could mean more powerful nuclear threats to the US mainland as well as South Korea because the fully-developed SLBM would mean a DPRK submarine secretly sailing underwater to the US waters and firing ballistic missiles to strike major military facilities and the mainland.

The DPRK's third nuclear test in February 2013 raised concerns for its miniaturizing nuclear devices. If Pyongyang succeeds in producing a nuclear warhead that can be mounted onto the SLBM, its nuclear operational capability would become a real threat.

While the ICBMs can be detected before launches by surveillance satellites and early warning aircraft, the SLBM is very hard to detect and preemptively strike as the submarine is an underwater weapon that cannot be detected by existing missile defense radars. It could mean an overhaul in South Korea's missile defense system.

Regarding the worry, the spokesman said that the DPRK's submarines can be detected with South Korea's existing surveillance assets and can be tackled with its own submarines and missiles.

Kim, however, said that if the DPRK's submarines sail underwater, it would be hard to find where it is, noting that the submarines could be tackled before going underwater.

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