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2013-04-04 China-Japan-Koreas

Two North Korean Submarines "Disappeared"

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Funny comments, but what easier method to slip a nuke payload offshore to a carrier?

Posted by Skidmark 2013-04-04 00:11|| 2013-04-04 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Roger the comments:

"The two 'torpedo' subs are small 130-ton, 30-meter, 10-man machines that can stay submerged for three-to-four days."

Come on now....they can stay submerged a lot longer than that.

Posted by KBK 2013-04-04 00:57|| 2013-04-04 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Staff might want to go easy on the kimchee

Posted by European Conservative 2013-04-04 05:53|| 2013-04-04 05:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "Yuri, you lost two more subs?"

/obscure?

Posted by Raj 2013-04-04 07:07|| 2013-04-04 07:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Come on now....they can stay submerged a lot longer than that.

The Hunley stayed submerged almost 150 years...

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-04 07:32|| 2013-04-04 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 EC's point is well-taken. "Overcome by ...gases, the crew succumbed"

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-04 09:20|| 2013-04-04 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 "Yuri, you lost two more subs?"

A play on one of the memorable lines from "The Hunt for Red October". A great sub movie in spite of starring Alec Baldwin of the Film Actors Guild.

Posted by SteveS 2013-04-04 09:28|| 2013-04-04 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Would the Norks be daft enough to do a Cheonan 2 type scenario but with nuke payload . All the rhetoric about "cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means of the DPRK" around the time they leave the naval base near Nampho ?
That being said , all are on high alert this time .

Posted by Foxy 2013-04-04 09:47|| 2013-04-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Once again, I'm more concerned about all the USDOD strike assets around CONUS that are in stand-down due to the sequester.

E.g PEARL HARBOR 12/07/1941 = the US Pacific Fleet can't come to MacArthur's rescue in the PHIL, i.e. from EASTPAC to WESTPAC/East Asia, iff the same fleet [heavy capital ships] is sunk or mostly sunk at its home base/port back in Hawaii or US West Coast = CONUS, now can it???

The US expected Japan to strike close to home, to include the PHIL + Guam, BUT NOT AS FAR EAST AS HAWAII LET ALONE THE US WEST COAST = CONUS.

OOOOOOOOOPPPPSSSSSS ... ...

FYI UOG's Professor Ron McNinch believes that it is highly unlikely the DPRK has anything that can hit Guam at this time - HOWEVER, PROFESSOR MCNINCH THINKS THE DPRK MAY BE ABLE TO THREATEN GUAM WID SUBMARINE-LED "INFILTRATING AGENTS" [DPRK SPECOPS + Fifth Columnists] WHOM WILL LIKELY WORK TO "DESTABILIZE" + SABOTAGE GUAM'S LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-04 22:58|| 2013-04-04 22:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't forget that 30 years after the war ended, there was still one Japanese soldier evading capture on Guam...

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