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Close analysis of Kim Jong Un’s new nuclear-missile submarine reveals it’s bound for a suicide mission
South Korea and Japan are having their own trade war, and it’s gotten so bad that some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japaneses-made cars
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B U S I N E S S I N S I D E R | T R E N D I N G
Close analysis of Kim Jong Un's new nuclear-missile submarine reveals it's bound for a suicide mission
Alex Lockie , Business Insider US Jul 24, 2019, 11:18 AM
North Korea showed leader Kim Jong Un touring a factory building a submarine, which HI Sutton, a submarine analyst, said probably took place on the country's east coast.
Kim hasn't been pictured inspecting weapons capable of carrying nuclear warheads since the thaw in tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
A naval expert said Kim's "new" submarine looked much like an old Russian submarine class introduced in the 1950s and has rough welded edges that would hamper it from evading detection by modern submarines used by the US and Japan.
North Korea's submarine can essentially perform one task: launch nuclear missiles at close targets like South Korea or Japan. This is a suicide mission for Pyongyang.
North Korea on Monday recalled the days of "fire and fury" by releasing images of leader Kim Jong Un touring a suspected nuclear-capable submarine, and a close reading of the images reveal once again that a US fight with North Korea could mean death for millions in the region, and suicide for Pyongyang, the country's capital.
Kim hasn't been pictured inspecting weapons capable of carrying nuclear warheads since the thaw in tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, but on Monday, it appears to have lost its patience with now stalled peace talks.
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North Korea showed Kim touring a factory building a submarine, which HI Sutton, a submarine analyst, said probably took place on the country's east coast.
North Korea has long sought a submarine that can fire ballistic missilesbut struggled to create one while under international sanctions. Ballistic-missile submarines give countries like the US and Russia an incomparable deterrent.
Even if an adversary state somehow found every single nuclear weapon a country possesses and destroyed them before a single shot could be fired in return, a submarine could lurk under the surface to deal a final retaliation blow.
North Korea has tested several missiles designed to fire from submarines but never fielded a true undersea deterrent.
The pictures on Monday suggest that Kim is getting close to changing that, although the submarine's crude construction will likely compel it to lurk close to North Korea's shores and out of range of more powerful US subs.
Take a look at Kim's tour of the submarine factory in the pictures below.
This shot shows the rough finish of the submarine and the several panels in the construction. It's unclear if these panels conceal anything useful or are simply shoddy work.
This shot gives context to the submarine's size. It's estimated at 11 meters across.
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments and a former submariner, told Business Insider that Kim's "new" submarine looks much like a Russian Romeo-class submarine, which was first built in the 1950s.
"It seems like they've adapted a Type 033, the only submarine they had access to, and adapted it to carry ballistic missiles in a conning tower sail launch tube," he said.
Clark said the US and other advanced countries build submarines with giant round plates of steal that they weld together; North Korea had to weld together small flat sheets of steel.
This, according to Clark, gives the submarine its rough appearance and many seams along the edges.
In the world of submarines, this rough surface kills the vessel's ability to hide underwater.
A suicide mission
North Korean missile test.
Instead of patrolling the world's oceans like the US and Russian nuclear submarines do, Clark said this submarine probably wouldn't leave North Korea's coast. Most likely, it would sit a few kilometres off the coast within North Korea's territorial waters and be armed with a few nuclear missiles.
US and Japanese ships have excellent sonars that can easily find and help destroy
submarines like North Korea's shoddy diesel-electric boat, but international law would keep them at least 10 or so miles at bay - unless a war was on.
"If you deploy it in your home waters off your coast, you can maybe avoid someone getting close enough to attack it," Clark said. "That gives you like a 10-mile buffer. [The US or Japan would be] able to hear it right at that buffer."
This means North Korea's submarine can essentially perform one task: launching nuclear missiles at close targets like South Korea or Japan. This is a suicide mission for Pyongyang.
Unstoppable, unsurvivable
A submarine launch by North Korea would mean an almost unstoppable shot. All of a sudden, a missile would emerge from the depths and then jet upward to the edge of space.
Within a few minutes, that missile could come crashing down on one of the world's more densely populated cities. It would leave a trail to a pinpoint in the ocean where the submarine had lurked.
But while the shot is unstoppable, the submarine is unsurvivable. US and Japanese ships, after a nuclear attack, would breach North Korea's waters and hunt and kill the ship. Targets on land in North Korea would likely follow next, as the US brought it vastly superior nuclear forces to bear.
This makes it extremely unlikely North Korea would ever use this submarine for nuclear strikes. Even with that knowledge, Clark said he wouldn't want to submerge in North Korea's new submarine. Clark compared the old technology to taking a '67 Chevy and trying to drive it cross country without an oil change or engine checkup.
One way or another, North Korea's new submarine looks like a death trap.
B U S I N E S S I N S I D E R | T R E N D I N G
South Korea and Japan are having their own trade war, and it's gotten so bad that some South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese-made cars
Alexandra Ma , Business Insider US Jul 24, 2019, 04:18 PM
A composite image of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo in May 2019, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Gangneung. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)/ (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
There's a massive trade war brewing between South Korea and Japan, which is the culmination of decades of mistrust and political tensions.
It was triggered on July 1, when Tokyo placed export restrictions on three key materials that South Korea needs to make semiconductors and display screens.
Many South Koreans have threatened to boycott Japanese beer and films. Some gas station owners are even refusing to refuel Japanese cars.
Seoul plans to report Japan to the World Trade Organization.
South Korean gas stations are refusing to refuel Japanese cars in the latest escalation of the two countries' new trade war, which comes after decades of political and economic tensions.
Those tensions exploded to the surface on July 1, when Japan placed export restrictions on three key high-tech materials - fluorinated polyimide, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride - on which South Korea relies to make semiconductors and display screens for its booming electronics industry.
Tokyo also plans to remove Seoul from a whitelist of nations that face minimum trade restrictions.
One of Samsung's new products is a 219-inch TV called "The Wall," which uses display technology known as microLED. Production of this TV could be affected by Japan and South Korea's trade dispute.
Samsung
Sung Yoon-mo, South Korea's industry minister, told reporters on Tuesday according to Reuters: "It is a very grave matter that shakes the foundation of South Korea-Japan economic partnership and Northeast Asian security cooperation that has been maintained and developed for more than 60 years."
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"Removal of South Korea from the white list of countries is against international norms and we are worried about its serious negative impact on global value chains and free trade," he added.
Similarly Yoshihide Suga, Japan's top government spokesman, said on Tuesday: "Japan- South Korea relations are now in a very severe state,"as cited by Reuters.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in earlier this month called the new trade restrictions an
"unprecedented emergency," and accused Tokyo of imposing them for political gain.
He also warned dozens of executives from companies including Samsung, Hyundai, and Lotte that this trade war could last for a long time, Bloomberg reported.
Japanese and South Korean officials met for five hours on July 12 in an effort to ease tensions, but failed to achieve a breakthrough, The Japan Times reported.
US President Donald Trump offered to help end the impasse last Friday, Reuters reported, but no US intervention is yet to occur.
Seoul now plans to report Tokyo to the World Trade Organization at meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, and says it is considering suing Japan over alleged unfair trading practices, The Japan Times said.
Tokyo denies those allegations and says any wrongdoing is Seoul's.
Car owners, beer drinkers, and anime fans affected
Many South Koreans have since vowed to boycott Japanese products, and called on gas station operators to stop refueling Japanese cars, The Korea Times reported. Some of them have complied, with one owner telling the newspaper that whenever he saw a Japanese car he saw "a Japanese flag."
Some auto service centers have also formed alliances to refuse serving Japanese autos, the newspaper said.
Observers say, however, that these boycotts are just harming Koreans rather than the Japanese government.
"The victim of the gas stations refusing to fill up Japanese cars isn't the Japanese
government but the car owners," The Korea Times quoted South Korean online news outlet E Today as saying.
"If people don't use gas stations, the victim is not the Japanese government but the gas station owners," it added.
South Koreans have also overwhelmingly bought less Japanese beer, booked fewer trips to Japan, and even refused to watch Japanese movies.
According to Emart, South Korea's biggest retailer, sales of Japanese beer between July 1 and July 18 were 30% lower year on year, South Korea's Hankyoreh newspaper reported.
"Butt Detective: The Movie," a Japanese anime film based on a series popular in South Korea, also suffered at the box office after its July 11 release, The Hankyoreh reported.
The movie also received multiple negative reviews, many of which said that Koreans shouldn't watch Japanese films, The Hankyoreh noted.
Last week a 78-year-old South Korean man died of self-immolationoutside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Police said he set fire to himself because of "his hostility against Japan," according to Agence France-Presse.
Japanese anime film "Butt Detective: The Movie" suffered at the South Korean box office amid the two countries' trade dispute. The film is about a detective whose head is shaped like a butt.
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100-year-long tensions bubbling under the surface
The two countries have had an uneasy relationship since 1910, when Japan forcefully colonised the Korean Peninsula - which at the same was still unified - and ruled it with an iron fist.
During World War II, Japan - which was still controlling Korea - forced millions of Koreans to become laborers to support Japan's military ambitions, and conscripted tens of thousands as soldiers.
Though Tokyo and Seoul normalised diplomatic relations in 1965, their relationship remained uneasy.
Last year, after a South Korean court ordered Japanese firms to compensate Koreans who were forced into wartime labor, many Japanese firms - including Mitsubishi Heavy - refused to comply, viewing it as an erosion of trust between the two countries' relations.
The Japanese government says the 1965 treaty settled all colonial-era debts, while many people in South Korea argue they had no choice but to accept it at the time, Pomona College Professor Tom Le wrote in The Washington Post this week.
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