North Korea's record-setting missile tests show off weapons it has tried to keep hidden for decadesA missile is launched out of a North Korea lake in a photo released on October 10. It may have been a stunt, but it reflects Pyongyang's long history of subterranean activity.For more stories, go toIn October, North Korea claimed that it had launched an underwater ballistic missile from a lake.
An underwater missile launcher in an inland lake does offer advantages. It would complicate planning for any US and South Korean strike. The exact location of the launcher must be pinpointed and then the attacker"would need a warhead that could penetrate through the atmosphere and then into the water, which would be another difficult task," Bennett said.
Maintenance would also be a nightmare."The North would need to be able to make electrical and communications connections in the water and maintain the missile in the water, unless the North developed some procedure for pumping the silo dry," Bennett said.
Should war erupt today, US and South Korean forces would hammer the North with precision-guided munitions, including huge bunker-buster bombs. While the North does have an enormous, if old, arsenal of Cold War-era artillery and tanks, it can't win a straight-up firepower battle with its much more technologically advanced foes.in caves, from which it emerges to fire and then ducks back under cover.
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