TAIPEI -- By the start of next month, Taiwan's long-secretive plans to make its own submarines will become known to the world with the first public appearance of a vessel in the southern port city of Kaohsiung.

The Taipei government has kept all specifications and images of its homemade submarine, represented here by an artist's impression, under strict lock and key. That changes at the end of this month. © Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano
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