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In reply to the discussion: How do they expect provoking NK to end? [View all]EX500rider
(10,951 posts)...and certainly has zero off the US coast.
They have some homemade coastal junk and mini-subs and some really ancient Russian/Chinese Romeo and Whisky class subs (1950's vintage), who in theory have the range, but they are very noisy diesel/electric subs, they would have to cross the Pacific mostly on the surface, we would know they were coming before they got out of N Korean waters.
They also just started work on a sub launched missile, don't have that worked out yet, neither do the have a nuclear warhead for that yet, they have only done 6 atomic tests of crude designs, nothing that would fit in a nose cone and survive launch.
We have not been at war with them since the '50's.
North & South Korea are technically still at war, but the UN mission the US fought under to repel N Korea is over.