“Our (US South Korea) military alliance is stronger than ever before and based on that I have given them approval to build a Nuclear Powered Submarine.”

That post by Donald Trump on Truth Social (where else) has drawn a fair degree of interest here in India.

“South Korea has a mature civil nuclear power industry so the technology and expertise is there,” Rear Admiral Monty Khanna (Retd) told StratNewsGlobal. “It is also a major ship-building and submarine building nation although until now it has only designed and built conventional submarines.

“If it starts building nuclear powered submarines, it challenges the only other nuclear player native to the region, China. To that extent, it may constrain China’s naval movement towards the Indian Ocean,” he said.

Admiral Khanna, who commis

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