The drone - called Unmanned Underwater Nuclear Attack Craft Haeil - was tested for 59 hours, KCNA reports, and Kim Jong Un was 'greatly satisfied' with the results.
The track of what is claimed to be an underwater droneIt comes as the US and South Korea completed an 11-day exercise that included major field training, and as the US reportedly prepared to send an aircraft carrier to the area for more military drills.North Korea described the exercises as"intentional, persistent and provocative" and said they had pushed it to"an irreversibly dangerous point".
South Korean Defence Minister Lee Jong-Sup said on Thursday that the North was unlikely to have mastered the technology to arm its most advanced weapons, although it had made"significant progress".Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said:"Pyongyang's latest claim to have a nuclear-capable underwater drone should be met with scepticism.
"But it is clearly intended to show that the Kim regime has so many different means of nuclear attack that any pre-emptive or decapitation strike against it would fail disastrously." North Korea has fired more than 20 ballistic and cruise missiles this year, following a record of more than 70 fired last year.
Mr Kim wants to negotiate relief from Western sanctions but refuses to agree to US demands for the curtailment of his nuclear programme first, saying this is necessary for the North to defend itself.
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