See photos North Korea says are from nuclear-capable underwater drone test
See photos North Korea says are from nuclear-capable underwater drone test
North Korea claimed to have tested an underwater drone capable of carrying a nuclear warhead that could create a “radioactive tsunami,” however, analysts urged skepticism noting a lack of proof. CNN’s Brian Todd reports. #CNN #News
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1.807 -> allies that his regime's
2.441 -> capability to deliver nuclear
4.042 -> weapons in different ways. Is
5.11 -> growing. New information tonight
10.549 -> on the north Korean strongman's
12.017 -> brutality and his unrelenting
13.518 -> ambition to threaten his enemies
15.654 -> . With these photos showing
16.655 -> tracks just under the surface,
18.723 -> Kim Jong un's regime claims to
20.258 -> have tested an underwater drone
21.693 -> capable of carrying a nuclear
23.562 -> warhead. Kim himself was
25.597 -> photographed beaming next to a
27.966 -> drone. North Korean state media
29.301 -> says the mission of this weapon
31.069 -> is to quote make a super scale
32.437 -> radioactive tsunami to destroy
33.538 -> enemy warships and ports. It
37.242 -> claims this drone traveled
39.077 -> underwater for nearly 60 hours,
40.679 -> then detonated warhead and blew
42.38 -> up a mock enemy ports. Some
44.649 -> analysts are skeptical of the
46.651 -> real capability of this weapon.
48.186 -> There's a lot we don't
49.821 -> understand about how they're
51.089 -> controlling this weapon, whether
51.623 -> it's pre programmed or whether
53.558 -> they're actively maneuvering
54.559 -> this thing underwater and panda
57.262 -> says this drone would likely be
59.097 -> vulnerable to being destroyed by
60.599 -> the U. S and south Korean navies
63.101 -> before it flushes out to sea.
64.569 -> But he says it could still be a
66.204 -> threat. There is nothing
67.672 -> preventing North Korea from in
68.373 -> principle, putting a nuclear
69.674 -> device on an underwater vehicle
71.51 -> like this and detonating it,
73.578 -> they could use it against massed
75.847 -> formations of surface warships
77.115 -> in testing. An underwater drone
79.117 -> takes a page from Vladimir
80.151 -> Putin's playbook. Russia claims
82.687 -> to have developed a submarine
84.055 -> launched nuclear power
85.123 -> underwater vehicle designed to
87.259 -> strike enemy cities with nuclear
89.594 -> weapons, but the Kremlin's
90.262 -> offered no real proof of it. In
91.596 -> recent days, Kim has apparently
94.399 -> have been successful in testing
95.534 -> another menacing weapon. From
99.271 -> mobile launchers. North Korea
101.139 -> fired off long range nuclear
102.44 -> capable cruise missiles. Eye
104.543 -> catching video shows the
105.977 -> missiles hugging coastlines and
107.345 -> mountains. Aircraft fly fairly
109.814 -> low, and if they will be nuclear
111.516 -> armed, that's going to present.
112.651 -> I think a substantial challenge
114.486 -> for missile defense in the
115.253 -> morning in northeast Asia. This
116.755 -> comes as a new report from human
118.356 -> rights watchdog group Korea.
119.724 -> Future details barbarous
121.293 -> conditions inside Kim's network
122.26 -> of prisons. What it says was a
125.53 -> pattern of summary executions,
127.232 -> torture, rape and starvation. At
130.168 -> least one prisoner, it said, was
132.337 -> forced to eat cockroaches and
133.772 -> rodents to survive a woman
135.941 -> jailed for crossing the border
137.175 -> into China, the report says, was
139.177 -> forced to have an abortion when
140.612 -> she was seven or eight months
141.713 -> pregnant. Any drop of foreign
143.715 -> blood dropped into North Korea
146.518 -> is an offense to the Kim regime
148.82 -> . And thus these poor ladies had
151.189 -> relationships with Chinese men
151.856 -> and will forcibly. He returned.
155.26 -> Are subjected to this criminal
157.195 -> treatment. North Korea's mission
161.199 -> to the U. N has not responded to
162.701 -> CNN's request for comment on the
164.269 -> new report. But Kim's regime
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3t4VXoGo4