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By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com

SEOUL — North Korea has been developing a submarine-based ballistic missile launch system which could send nuclear-tipped missiles to as far as Alaska, military officials and analysts here said.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed for the first time a report that South Korea has detected signs of the North’s development of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).

“There are some signs that indicate the possibility of a North Korean submarine equipped with a missile,” the JCS said in a parliamentary report in response to a U.S. media report on the North’s suspected SLBMs development.

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