How Good Is North Korea's Submarine Fleet?

The 1996 North Korean spy submarine, pictured above, is now on display in a museum just north of Jeongdongjin. Photo from Not Dead Yet Blog

Questions Surface Over North Korea's Submarine Fleet After Warship Lost -- The Scotsman

EXPERTS claim North Korea's submarine fleet is technologically backward, prone to sinking or running aground and all but useless outside its own coastal waters.

And yet many are asking: Could it have been responsible for the explosion that sank a South Korean warship in March? And, if so, how could a submarine have slipped through the defences of South Korea, which maintains a fleet far more sophisticated than its northern neighbour's?

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My Comment: An eye opening report on North Korea's sub program .... this is a must read.

For more info on the North Korean use of a sub to sneak in commandos in 1996 can be found here.