Posted on 04/30/2017 3:15:07 PM PDT by blam
SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- After the United States deployed a nuclear-powered submarine and an aircraft carrier to South Korean waters amid high inter-Korean tensions, North Korea on Sunday threatened to sink the underwater vessel, accusing America of stepping up military intimidation.
"The moment the USS Michigan tries to budge even a little, it will be doomed to face the miserable fate of becoming a underwater ghost without being able to come to the surface," the North's propaganda website Uriminzokkiri said in a posting.
"The urgent fielding of the nuclear submarine in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, timed to coincide with the deployment of the super aircraft carrier strike group, is intended to further intensify military threats toward our republic," the website claimed.
The guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN 727) sailed into the South Korean port of Busan on April 25 before heading out to sea four days later. The Ohio-class submarine is reportedly conducting various drills.
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Is Kim still threatening people?
I’ll be glad when this is resolved one way or another.
Uh, did North Korea say HOW they were going to sink it?
Here, Kim. We’ll even give you the electric drill to pierce the hull. Here, see the long extension cord? Yeah, Kim. Here’s your scuba mask. Have at it... BZZZZT oh sorry the GFCI failed.....
Will someone pay to have this guy get a decent haircut, please? And stop him from eating Swiss cheese and Twinkies? Millions of lives depend on it.
Past time to put him out of his misery.
Baghdad Bob did it a little better. "Underwater ghost", eh. Girls from elementary school might come up with something like that on a sleep-over. Needs something more along the lines of that "stomachs roasting in hell" kind of stuff or whatever it was that one time.
They are not dumb enough to sink a US Sub in international waters...even if they could.
Of course they do.
I hope they try it. They do and the North Korean problem will be resolved within a few hours and there will be cleanup for some time after.
Kimmy will probably try to get a nondescript fishing boat near it with a crude A bomb. Or another suicide sub.
Kimmie needs some nukie not knookie ...
Was he planning in pelting the submarines with Kim Chee? Because all he’s managed to blow up with his missiles is the equipment that launches them!
They won’t even see it until it’s too late.
Photoshop:
yeah, right... 
Yea,after my large cheeseburger and fries!
He couldn't possibly find it even if he tried.
What is that we are looking at in the circle, PL? A sub?
No kidding. Apparently, Fat Boy doesn’t know how there are at least two U.S. Virginia and Los Angeles class attack boats in the area, along with advanced diesel electric boats from the Japanese and ROK navies, along with subs from Russia, China and other countries as well.
And did I mention the airborne ASW assets that are active over the SOJ? True, we don’t have the P-3 fleet we once did, but it’s a sure bet we have P-3s and P-8s active, along with sub-hunting aircraft from our allied nations, and ASW helos from the Vinson.
North Korea’s subs are primarily old Soviet-era Romeo class boats—not much of a punch and very noisy. Not a matter of if they get killed when the balloon goes up, just a question of what gets to them first.
The Romeos are a key SOF insertion platform for Pyongyang, so sending most of them to the bottom will make things a little less hectic in our rear areas, since the commandos will be sleeping with the fishes instead of attacking C2, logistics, air defense sites and other key targets.
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