PREVIEW: GUEST: Bruce Bechtol SUMMARY: Bruce Bechtol discusses the North Korean Navy, which is generally weak but excels at asymmetric warfare, such as using stealth boats and submarines to sneak in troops or sinking the Cheonan in 2010. While Russia is r
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
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SUMMARY: Bruce Bechtol discusses the North Korean Navy, which is generally weak but excels at asymmetric warfare, such as using stealth boats and submarines to sneak in troops or sinking the Cheonan in 2010. While Russia is reportedly helping build their nuclear submarine fleet, they face real challenges in conventional, head-to-head naval combat.
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| 0:21.1 | This is John Match, a. Report that Russia is transferring nuclear power technology for submarines |
| 0:28.4 | to North Korea to assist in what presumably is a build-out of their boomer fleet, the ability |
| 0:36.7 | to launch a submarine with missiles on board and proceed |
| 0:41.4 | towards the U.S. or its allies and launch a missile. Here, Bruce Bechtel, my colleague, answers the |
| 0:49.4 | question about the North Korea Navy in general. It's not a bright, shining object. |
| 0:56.3 | Nuclear weapons are scary, but North Korea's Navy is not. |
| 0:59.9 | Not now. |
| 1:00.8 | Here's Bruce. |
| 1:01.9 | More of this later tomorrow. |
| 1:04.0 | Not with naval forces. |
| 1:06.0 | With ground forces they can. |
| 1:09.0 | They just don't have enough ships. |
| 1:11.3 | What they are good at, as you and John know, is atometric type stuff. |
| 1:15.8 | Like they're thinking of the Chonan. |
| 1:17.3 | Remember that in 2010? |
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