Weapons

North Korea Demonstrates Submerged Ballistic Missile Launch

North Korea claims to have successfully launched a ballistic missile from a submarine beneath waters off the coast of its mainland. That missile has the exact characteristics of the Russian SS-N-6 first generation submarine ballistic missile that has a range of 1,500 miles, carrying a reentry payload of 1,400 pounds with a circular error probability of a little over a half mile.