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American stealth battleship Zumwalt has arrived at the Japanese base.
It is a strategic weapon worth 10 trillion won that is difficult to detect on the radar, and it is highly likely that it 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.
However, it is a stealth battleship that can be caught by opposing radars the size of a small fishing boat.
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Armed with hundreds of missiles such as the surface-to-air SM-2 and surface-to-ground Tomahawk, it boasts three or four times the firepower of the Aegis destroyer, and is also promoting the installation of hypersonic missiles.
She built only three ships because the construction cost 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 Zumwalt as an 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 Zum Walt arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, the home port of the U.S. 7th Fleet, on the 26th of last month, and she was 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.
(Video editing: Park Chun-bae, CG: Park Cheon-woong)