Now it has three.
South Korea now has three ballistic-missile submarines
The novel submarine's launch ceremony went off without a hitch at the Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. shipyard in the city of Ulsan, on the southeast section of South Korea. The new boat was named after a Korean independence activist, Shin Chae-ho, and it represents the third and final of three Changbogo-III Batch-I submarines the country has developed without outsourcing technologies, in a project that cost roughly $2.77 billion.
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