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North Korea fired seven missiles four times in a week until the 1st of last month.

While there are speculations that the level of provocation may increase further in the future, the U.S. has dispatched a futuristic stealth battleship built with cutting-edge technology to the Yokosuka base in Japan.

There is a high possibility that they will come to our East Sea for joint training.



Reporter Kim Tae-hoon reports.



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The U.S. Navy's next-generation strategic asset, the Zumwalt, that looks like a space battleship.



With a full-load displacement of 16,000 tons, it is more than 5,000 tons larger than the US Navy's flagship ships.



But her opponent's radar is a stealth battleship the size of a small fishing boat.



She is armed with hundreds of missiles such as surface-to-air SM-2 and surface-to-ground Tomahawk, boasting three or four times the firepower of Aegis destroyers, and is also promoting the deployment of hypersonic missiles.



She built only three ships because the cost of construction was high, reaching 10 trillion won per ship.



Its appearance and performance are so state-of-the-art that former US ambassador to Korea, Harry Harris, described Zoom Walt as his Admiral in the Navy:



[Harry Harris / Commander of the Pacific at the time of commissioning in 2016: When I saw the Zumwalt being built, I said, 'If Batman had a ship, it would be the USS Zumwalt.



] However, I did not have any special training or operation, but I chose Northeast Asia as my first long-distance operation area.



The U.S. Navy said the Zumwalt arrived at Yokosuka Air Base in Japan, the home port of the U.S. 7th Fleet, on the 26th of last month and is operating in the Indo-Pacific region.



The next destination is a secret until now, but it is predicted that the Korean Peninsula will be the most likely destination.



According to the policy of expanding strategic asset deployment agreed upon by South Korea and the United States, it is unlikely that Zumwalt will press North Korea, which has taken out missiles again while entering a port in Busan or conducting joint exercises in the East Sea.