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The Congressional Research Service, the research unit of the U.S. Congress, said in a recent report that North Korea has developed or already deployed a submarine- or ship-mounted ballistic missile system with a range of at least 2,500 kilometers.
According to the report, in the 1990s Pyongyang imported from Russia Soviet-era R-27(SS-N-6) submarine-mounted missiles and improved them. The report pointed to the possibility that Russian technicians assisted the North with the project.
North Korea acquired the missile technology from scrap Russian submarines, the report said. Pyongyang has improved the technology to build a missile with a range of at least 2,500km capable of being mounted on Romeo-class submarines and cargo ships, according to the report.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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