So you are thinking the Norks are going to have stealth tech subs our attack boats won’t be right behind from day one?
The Norks better stick with their friends, the Iranian’s Magic Carpets.
‘Stealth’ is subjective, adaptive & tactical.
Why do you think the USN went so bat$h!t over AIP and leased the HSwMS Gotland? It was as much about post-Cold War tactics as it was the technology.
I’m not convinced it couldn’t be done quite easily (get a sub into one or, for that matter, more ports). My point was primarily that any ‘first-strike’ would be suicidal (save for under the current Unic in Chief) and that, as such, mounting missile tubes on subs seems silly when they could just put a bomb on a boat & blow it up in a port. But why even bother with that when the best strike would be to put 3 in the upper atmosphere, launched from ships rather than the technical problems of a sub launch?
IMHO, your comment couldn’t be more out of tune with asymmetrical thinking when compared with the terrorist ‘threat matrix pre-9/11. History speaks for itself there...