Posted on 05/03/2012 2:30:12 PM PDT by dynachrome
After Pyongyang threatened to wage “special action” against Seoul, a number of North Korean submarines have disappeared, a South Korean government official told the JoongAng Ilbo.
“Eight or nine submarines of the North’s East Sea Fleet are missing from our radar,” the high-ranking South Korean official said on Monday. “We are figuring out whether the submarines are conducting a military drill or an actual mission.
“The missing submarines vary in size, from the 1,000-ton shark-class vessel to a former Soviet Romeo-class one (1,300 ton),” the official added.
Military sources say that North Korea currently owns roughly 70 submarines, including the 1,500-ton Rajin-class vessels or Yugo-class infiltration coastal ships. When North Korean submarines are anchored at base, they can be seen by a satellite.
It’s been more than a week since the North publicly threatened to attack Seoul, saying they will stage special military action in an unprecedented, “peculiar” way.
Police have beefed up security near local broadcasting and newspaper companies, which North Korea has pinpointed as “sources of provocation,” to counter a possible military attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com ...
First, it would be a good idea to find them.
Second, maybe they sank.
Well ... I can't say that I ever agreed with the NORKs on anything in the past, but I have to agree that broadcasting and newspaper companies are certainly a 'source of provocation'... Maybe I should mail them the addresses of the NYT and WashCompost...
Well ... I can't say that I ever agreed with the NORKs on anything in the past, but I have to agree that broadcasting and newspaper companies are certainly a 'source of provocation'... Maybe I should mail them the addresses of the NYT and WashCompost...
...My second double post today... My computer is not behaving properly. It is almost becoming a ‘source of provocation’.
They might have went under water.
I'm not sure about these kinds of things but don't things have to be flying to be tracked by radar? Did he mean 'sonar'?
Last I heard, the NKs sunk a SK destroyer when they were unable to locate certain NK subs. Part deux?
Sonar?
Radar would be weird
And why would we or our allies announce this to the world?
I don't believe it.
Not on radar. But certainly on sonar.
Maybe they sank.
Let’s assume that NKs literally go ballistic one day and force the US to liquidate the NK capital and its military. The NKs would undoubtedly level Seoul and Incheon, which house almost half the Korean population, but much of the industry in the south would be untouched (assuming whomever is the US President acted immediately to decapitate the NK regime). The Chinese would likely move into the northern part of NK for “security” reasons and the middle of the Korean peninsula would become a nuclear no-go zone. My questions are: whether the US would immediately pour its resources into protecting what remains of Korea or if it would limit itself to humanitarian aid? And, would the Chinese be prepared to see a united democratic Korea on its border while it still had a major US military presence? If the NK leadership was sane, I wouldn’t ask the questions, but it is just this kind of madmen that could precipitate a nuclear war. For all their evil oppression of their own people. neither Mao nor Bhreznev were suicidal. They firmly believed the US would use nukes to protect their interests. The NKs may have deluded themselves into believing the US won’t act, or that the Chi-coms would come to their defence in the event of a US nuclear retaliatory strike. Scary world.
Andrei... you’ve lost another submarine?
That does not mean the US would tell S Korea though
That happens every time a sub submerges.
I think it would be just peachy, as well as payback for the Cheonan sinking, if four of the Norks more modern boats just submerged and never again surfaced. The only noise would be those subs going ‘pop’ below crush depth, but with no explanation why.
Either the USN, or those darn Krakens.
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