North Korea is building the second of what it hopes to be a fleet of fearsome naval guided-missile destroyers - even though ...

Images of the Sinpo South Shipyard ... or whether it is based on a modified Romeo Class of submarine originally acquired from China in the 1970s before North Korea began producing them domestically.

For comparison, the US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are about 505 ... A nuclear-powered submarine is under construction at a shipyard in the North Korean port of Sinpo and another frigate or ...

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 ...

North Korea’s military modernization underscores the importance of America and its own East Asian allies expanding their own submarine fleets. The totalitarian dictatorship of North Korea ...

Pyongyang has approximately 70 diesel-electric attack, coastal, and midget class submarines divided between the two fleets. The North Korean fleet also consists of roughly 470 surface vessels ...

The recently launched North Korean ... submarine) is not in the form of being capable of normal operation." A military source told Yonhap the new submarine appears to be an upgrade of a Romeo ...

North Korea's recent unveiling of the Choe Hyon-class multipurpose destroyer signals ... capability with the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) capable of launching submarine ...