SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully test-fired two submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) consecutively earlier this week, government sources said Thursday, in a sign the missile is nearing its operational deployment. The military launched the SLBMs at an interval of 20 seconds from the 3,000-ton Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine in the Yellow Sea [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has started the construction of a new 3,600-ton-class military submarine with improved ballistic missile capabilities, officials said Thursday. The second unit of Changbogo-III Batch-II class submarine, boasting advanced combat capabilities and sonar systems, is set to be built by 2026 and handed over to the Navy in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Tuesday launched a new 3,000-ton-class homegrown submarine capable of firing ballistic missiles, the third of its kind designed to boost underwater defense capabilities, the Navy said. A launch ceremony for the new submarine, named after a prominent Korean independence activist, Shin Chae-ho, took place at the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to put into operations a newly unveiled homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) at sea around the second half of next year, sources said Monday. Last week, the country unveiled its first homegrown SLBM by announcing the successful test-launch from the 3,000-ton-class Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine. South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday unveiled the development of a supersonic cruise missile to improve its maritime defense capabilities just days after the North fired a new long-range cruise missile in a sign of accelerating military competition between the two Koreas. According to the defense ministry, the state-run Agency for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has successfully test-fired a homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a new submarine to become the world’s eighth country to possess the weapon, sources said Tuesday. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) carried out underwater ejection tests of the SLBM from the Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Navy on Friday received the country’s first 3,000-ton-class indigenous submarine capable of firing submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) to bolster underwater defense capabilities, officials said. The commissioning ceremony for the mid-class diesel air-independent propulsion submarine, named after prominent South Korean independence fighter Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, took place at the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to carry out underwater tests of a home-grown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) this year, having concluded ground tests, a source said Wednesday. South Korea is developing an SLBM based on the home-grown ground-to-ground Hyunmoo-2B ballistic missile with a flight range of around 500 kilometers. It [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of lawmakers from South Korea’s ruling Saenuri Party said Monday the country should consider building nuclear-powered submarines, amid escalating provocations by Pyongyang. The remark came as North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in waters off its east coast. The South Korean military said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s central television broadcasting station, Korean Central Television, aired footage of the recent launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Thursday, which took place in waters near Sinpo at around 5:30 a.m. local time on August 24. The one-minute-47-second clip showed the launch of the missile from [...]