A nuclear-powered missile submarine.
The mutual defense treaty between Russia and the North Korea barely ratified, Russia already seems to be marking its territory and by extension that of its ally.
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Earlier this Monday, the departure of the Admiral Golovko frigate, equipped with Zircon missiles, shook observers’ radars. It would head towards the Atlantic, a maneuver in response to recent speeches by Donald Trump.
“A nuclear-powered Yasen-class missile submarine”
This Monday, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced in turn that it had spotted four Russian ships off the island of Hokkaido. These ships would have transited via the La Pérouse canal “from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Sea of Japan”reports Newsweek. Given their trajectory, one might even believe that they are heading towards North Korea.
Immediate military assistance, establishing “a new world order”, cooperation in various sectors: what the defense treaty that binds Russia to North Korea says https://t.co/RqTluShgGT via @lindependant
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According to Japanese authorities, one of the Russian ships in question is “a nuclear-powered Yasen-class missile submarine”. Our colleagues affirm that this is the “Russia’s most advanced, powerful and quietest attack submarine, especially in terms of stealth”. The Krasnoyarsk and the Novosibirsk are the two Yasen-class submarines assigned to the Pacific Fleet, based in Kamchatka.
The movement of this submarine comes as a message to those who would like to attack North Korea, which maintains frosty relations with South Korea and Japan.
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