North Korea says it has tried a submerged robot that can release a "radioactive tidal wave."
The "clear-cut advantage" was placed in the waters off the South Hamgyong region on Tuesday, state news organisation KCNA says.
According to the report, it travelled for more than 59 hours at a depth of 80 to 150 metres before being exploded off its east coast.
Nonetheless, investigators are on high alert in North Korea's case regarding the capabilities of the new weapon.
Pressures on the Korean peninsula have been running high as the US and South Korea finished up the biggest joint field practises in five years on Thursday.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-you said on Friday he would "ensure North Korea takes care of its crazy incitements."
According to the KCNA, the North's weapon, dubbed "Haeil" (Korean for "tornado"), is designed to target enemy vessels and ports by generating a "super-scale" radioactive wave.
"This atomic submerged assault robot can be conveyed at any coast and port or towed by a surface boat for activity," it adds.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the activity, saying it should serve as a warning to the US and South Korea to "understand the DPRK's limitless atomic conflict deterrence capacity is being reinforced at a more prominent rate," according to AFP.
By all accounts, North Korea's most recent weapon seems to be copying Russian Poseidon torpedoes, said to be equipped for generating radioactive sea waves and atomic tidal waves that could obliterate waterfront urban communities in the US.
This weapon is the first of its sort, says Hong Min, an examination individual at the Korea Establishment for Public Unification. "It is undeniably difficult to be identified ahead of time by any observation or interceptor resources that South Korea and the United States have up to this point."
"North Korea is showing a personal conduct standard of answering with 'atomic weapons' to all tactical reactions against past, progressing, and future [US-South Korea] joint activities," he said.
Be that as it may, Leif-Eric Easley, a teacher at Ewha College in Seoul, said Pyongyang's most recent case "ought to be met with wariness."
"It is expected to demonstrate that the Kim system has so many different methods for an atomic assault that any planned or beheaded strike against it would flop spectacularly," he said.
Ankit Panda, an atomic weapons expert at the Carnegie Blessing for Global Harmony, said, "I will quite often seriously treat North Korea, yet I can't preclude the likelihood that this is an endeavour at trickery or psyop (mental tasks)."
Mr. Yoon said North Korea was "propelling its atomic weapons continuously and doing rocket incitements with an exceptional force". He made the remarks at a ceremony commemorating West Ocean Guard Day, an annual event honouring the warriors who died while defending the As Far As Possible Line, a disputed sea line between the Koreas.
Independently, the North terminated key journey rockets on Wednesday, "tipped with a test warhead reenacting an atomic warhead," KCNA says.
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