Posted on 08/07/2006 4:43:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea claims capture of U.S. submersible
By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 36 minutes ago
North Korea claimed it has captured an unmanned U.S. submersible and put it on display in Pyongyang, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Monday. The U.S. dismissed the report.
The small vessel was captured during a reconnaissance mission in waters off North Korea's eastern city of Hamhung, said the Choson Sinbo newspaper, which is published by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang government.
The newspaper report on its Web site, which is monitored in Seoul, was accompanied by a picture purported to be of the black torpedo-shaped U.S. vessel. There were no further details as to when or how North Korea obtained it.
A spokesman for the U.S. military in South Korea, David Oten, dismissed the report.
"We have nothing unaccounted for and there is no way for us to verify that this is a U.S. vessel," Oten said.
Last September, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il instructed officials to put the captured vessel on public display next to the spy ship USS Pueblo, which the communist regime seized along with its crew of 82 in 1968, the newspaper said. The crew was released after 11 months.
The Pueblo, moored to the bank of the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is now the site of tours to inspire anti-U.S. sentiment among the country's 23 million people. Some 1,500 North Koreans made daily visits to the Pueblo during a recent month-long, anti-U.S. rally period, said the newspaper.
Despite repeated U.S. assurances that it has no intention of attacking the North, the communist country frequently claims that Washington seeks to invade it and that the U.S. is driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.
The North recently raised regional tensions by test-launching seven missiles, including a new long-range model believed capable of reaching the U.S. that failed shortly after takeoff.
Yep, that is a torpedo from 1958.
That old? Must be something N. Korean fishermen got in their net while fishing crabs.:)
Just wait for the Reuters story, it'll look exactly like one of those.
It looks like one from an old episode of Gilligan's Island.
That would be assuming the were competent enough to properly utilize simple hand tools.
What is what, a 'recon torp?' A fanciful hypothetical born of too many video games. The photograph? An otherwise unidentified ostensible torpedo.
It is probably a NK mockup of one of their failed attempts at creating b/s.
Just wait for the Reuters story, it'll look exactly like one of those.
It's a Ronery Torpedo.
A black tube shape on a NK news site? Do you know what is 'credulity?' How 'bout a failure of scepticism.
I personally saw the "Recon Torpedo" on the History Channel. The show was " Hitler's Secret Nazi Wonder Weapons of 1957"
Johnny, how about some coffee?
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