Posted on 05/08/2015 7:54:24 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Saturday it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country's advancing military capability.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally attended the test launching of what he described as a "world-level strategic weapon," the official Korean Central News Agency said. The report did not reveal the exact timing and location of the launch.
Kim praised the test launch as an "eye-opening success" and declared that the North Korea now has a weapon capable of "striking and wiping out in any waters the hostile forces infringing upon the sovereignty and dignity of (North Korea)."
On Kim's orders, the submarine submerged and after a while a missile soared into the sky from underwater, the agency said.
South Korea's defense ministry said last year that it believed North Korea was developing technologies for launching ballistic missiles off submarines.
A U.S. research institute said in January that such capability posed a potential new threat to South Korea, Japan and U.S. bases in East Asia, although North Korea's submarines tend to be old and would be vulnerable to attack.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3074342/NKorea-says-test-fired-ballistic-missile-submarine.html#ixzz3ZbeWQ8gI Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
can we manage to get kim angry at the iranians??
be careful with that you dumb moron
Don’t they have old Romeos?
So, considering their track record, is there a NK sub sitting at the bottom of the sea?
The North says lots of things.
I’m not convinced.
Gosh, good old Jimmy Carter and his negotiating skills sure saved us...
Now Obama’s going to save us too.
Hey, anybody see my fwiggin swark with waserbeam on its head?
ROTFLMAO
The Duck you did....
LOL
Now that you mention it, they talk about it submerging and launching a missile, but there's nothing about it coming back up.
LOL! Good one.
and when did the norks get a boomer?
However, our detection technology is so good that we actually recorded the launch of this missile back in 2010, five years before it was actually launched.
They must have done a USS PUEBLO to the RUSSKIES.
A “Do you believe this?” Ping.
That looks like a contrail from a plane.
Sink their subs in deep water without telling anyone.
They have old subs, people will think they sank on their own.
Well, back in 2010, half the nation and all the media declared it was a Nuclear Missile fired from a NK submarine off the coast of Hawaii.
Unless the MSM are liars and half the nation are gullible semi-morons, then it can’t be an airplane contrail.
; )
I don't think I have ever seen one of their subs actually submerging.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.