Pyongyang threatened to destroy the nuclear submarine "Michigan" US Navy, which earlier this week went to the South Korean port of Busan. This is written by the South Korean agency "Yonhap" with reference to the message of the North Korean propaganda portal Uriminzokkiri. "At a time when the" Michigan "will try at least to move, he will be doomed to the miserable fate of becoming an underwater ghost, unable to return to the surface," the authors promise. According to them, "the urgent transfer of an atomic submarine into the waters around the Korean peninsula, which coincided with the dispatch of the strike carrier carrier group, is called upon to further strengthen military threats against our republic". Atomic submarine "Michigan" type "Ohio" came to the South Korean port of Busan earlier this week. She must join the strike group of the aircraft carrier "Karl Vinson", which conducts joint exercises with the ships of the Marine Self-Defense Forces of Japan near the Korean peninsula. About the direction of the nuclear submarine with cruise missiles on board on April 12, reported "Lente. Ru »source in law enforcement agencies. Currently, the US Navy has four nuclear submarine cruisers - carriers of cruise missiles, rebuilt from the first ships of a series of strategic missile carriers of the type "Ohio". In the course of the modernization, 22 of the 24 missile silos originally intended for the deployment of Trident C-4 ballistic missiles were converted to launchers of the UGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles (up to 154 units).

North Korea has previously stated its readiness to launch a preemptive strike against US military bases if Washington takes a political, economic or military provocation directed against Pyongyang. A representative of the General Staff of the DPRK Army explained that "in case of US aggression", US military facilities in Japan and South Korea will be attacked.

Original article: North Korea threatened to destroy nuclear submarine of US Navy with Tomahawk missiles.