South Korea plans to develop the perfect weapon to destroy the North’s underground military facilities — the “Frankenmissile.”
Plans for the Gothic-horror-sounding weapon emerged the day after President Trump agreed “in principle” to scrap a 1,100-pound warhead weight limit on the South’s missiles.
South Korea already has the capability of firing ballistic missiles with a range of up to 500 miles, allowing it to hit anywhere within the Hermit Kingdom.
But its deterrence capability has so far been limited by restrictions on the payload of its missiles.
Seoul’s plans for missiles capable of carrying 2-ton bombs will allow it to attack the rogue regime’s extensive underground military facilities on its own, without depending on America’s “Bunker Buster” bomb, the Telegraph reported.
It was nicknamed the “Frankenmissile” because it was cobbled together from two existing types of ballistic missiles — a hybrid that evokes the iconic science fiction monster in “Frankenstein,” the UK’s Express reported.
The missile is just one of several new tactics Seoul intends to employ as North Korean despot Kim Jong Un accelerates his missile and nuclear-weapons program, according to the Telegraph.
Seoul also hopes by Dec. 1 to introduce an elite special-forces unit tasked with eliminating the Pyongyang regime — including Kim — in the event of war, the Telegraph reported.
The “decapitation strike” team is expected to train alongside members of America’s SEAL Team 6, which was behind the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
“We are in the process of conceptualizing the plan,” Defense Minister Song Young-moo told the national parliament.
During a call with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Trump also gave “conceptual approval” for Seoul to buy billions of dollars of weapons from the US, Reuters reported.