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According to an article from the Tokyo desk of The Telegraph, North Korea is dumping money into stealthy craft termed Very Slender Vessels — basically high speed (60 knot) cigarette boats with low, stealthy silhouettes.

Made from fiberglass and with a wave-piercing style bow, these are updates to what the Iranians have pulled off for the past few decades.

Intelligence officials in Seoul now estimate that at least seven of the vessels have been put into service on the west coast of the peninsula, with one of the craft recently sighted off Yongmae Island.

The island is just seven miles from the South’s Yeonpyeong Island, which North Korean artillery batteries bombarded in November 2012, killing two civilian residents and two military personnel.