PyongyangNorth Korea says a submarine fired two types of cruise missiles.
If the Hero Kim Kun Ok launched them, it would be that boat’s first confirmed weapons trial.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff tracked both launches, one from a vertical launch system, one from a torpedo tube.
State media did not name the submarine or give the missiles’ ranges, so the vessel’s role is unconfirmed.
Pyongyang has not said when the submarine enters service.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone leans critical
- notes the Hero Kim Kun Ok's first publicized sea trial and that KCNA named neither the boat nor missile ranges
Sources: The War Zone