The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said in his congratulatory speech made at the ceremony for launching a newly-built submarine on September 6, 2023 that Submarine named Hero Kim Kun Ok No. 841, which would be launched, was the standard type of tactical nuclear submarine, after which the DPRK intends to convert the existing medium-sized submarines of its Navy into an attack type, as he mentioned on the last Navy Day.
Kim Jong Un said that the means of nuclear attack submarine, which had been regarded as a symbol of aggression against the DPRK over the past decades, had become its overwhelming might that could strike terror in the hearts of the shameless enemy, and the fact that it was a new attack submarine of the DPRK’s own style, which the world had never known, was a great auspicious event for all the DPRK people.
Kim Jong Un said that the DPRK’s intention to turn all the other existing medium-sized submarines into attack ones like that one, which could carry tactical nukes to play a significant role in modern warfare, in addition to their development-oriented, prospective plan for building nuclear submarines, was a “low-cost, hi-tech strategy” as part of the line of strengthening the naval forces adopted at the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.