The United Kingdom s future nuclear deterrent: the 2021 update to Parliament
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every inch of the submarine is used. they give me a harness your head s going to go right in between there. reporter: as we prepare to climb to the top of the sub to the bridge. we wait for word. control bridge, send abc to the bridge. reporter: up the ladder through several hatches. they tell you, when it comes to your hands and your feet, make sure three out of four are touching at all times. we climb to the top, where they are on patrol as the submarine leaves port. preparing to descend into the sea. back down inside the submarine, captain seth burton takes us past the missile tubes holding the tomahawks. so inside this tube, right here is seven missiles. reporter: seven tomahawk missiles. right. reporter: and we take note that in between, the curtains drawn, where the sailors sleep. so the sailors are actually sleeping in between the tomahawk missiles. right. reporter: inside the submarine the control room, they are about to deliver the order esnd.merge th
what they re now doing is trying to move to an underwater deployment capability. that for the united states is strategically much more complicated than simply dealing with missiles on the ground because it s a much more stealthy deployment. it s hard to track submarines own though north korean submarines are noisy, it s still hard to track them. when you track submarines you re trying to find out where they re moving, what they re armed with and also take them out. the whole point is to be able to preemptively take action if you see a launch is coming of something that is so dangerous. right. you can with land-based we have pretty good intel or better than we used to at least, but a submarine is much more difficult. north korean territory is not that large. the pacific ocean is quite large, and you know, i think the concern is that they are trying to build towards launching nuclear tipped missiles from the submarines. that picture you showed of that hull that kim jong-un was st
examining the photos says the missiles were fired from mobile launcher with two missile tubes that were unveiled for the very first time, they described the projectiles as new short-range ballistic missiles and south korea s reporting that they flew nearly 250 miles before landing in the waters between the north korean peninsula and japan. the question now is how does this affect future negotiations between the u.s. and north korea? until this point president trump has down played missiles from north korea and has allowed the country more room to test up activity and talks have stalled since collapse of second summit in vietnam back in february, since then president trump and the north korean leader shook hands at dmz this past june and agreed to resume denuclear
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