In the case of the Hero Kim Gun-Ok, the vessel started life as a Cold War-era, Soviet-built Romeo-class submarine. The Soviet Union operated Romeo-class subs under Project 633, which began in the ...
Analysts said the vessel appears to be a modified Soviet-era Romeo-class submarine, which North Korea acquired from China in the 1970s and began producing domestically. Its design, with 10 launch ...
But being launched from a submarine can make missiles harder to detect, and allows them to get closer to other targets. North Korea's existing Romeo-class submarines, which were built in the 1990s ...
A submarine capable of firing nuclear weapons ... Analysts believe it is a Soviet-era Romeo-class sub - the same that Mr Kim inspected in 2019 - but has been modified to carry nuclear weapons.
“One of the submarines North Korea is building can ... “One is a modified Romeo Class and the other is a new medium-large size one.” North Korea has been subject to U.N. Security Council ...