Military Sources, "About 50 N. Korean Submarines Left Their Bases...Can't be Located"

SBS (S. Korean TV) ^ | 2015.08.23

[TigerLikesRooster]

Military Sources, "About 50 N. Korean Submarines Left Their Bases...Can't be Located"

2015.08.23 15:23

/begin my translation

Dozens of N. Korean submarines left their bases at both Eastern and Western coast, and can't be located. Military are increasing their surveillance capability to track them, it is confirmed.

That accounts for 70% of (N. Korea's) submarine fleet, which totals 70 ships. This is the largest rate of deployment since the Korean War.

Military sources said, "This is 10 times more than their normal deployment level. Dozens of them left their bases at both coasts, and we are unable to track them."

They said, "70% of their submarine fleet is not located. We are increasing our surveillance capability to find them."

They suspect that the unusually high level of N. Korea's submarine movements may be for further military provocation, and raised their level of alert.

N. Korea also more than doubled its front-line deployment of artillery power, since the high-level talks began.

The sources said, "Since the talks began, their front-line artillery power has more than doubled."

/end my translation

[TigerLikesRooster]

I suppose it meant S. Korean military. I am not sure if U.S. military are tracking them.

They say that their diesel-powered submarines are small and quiet, making them difficult to track.

[JPX2011]

Deploying SF troops?

[chasio649]

until they charge the batteries...then Gotcha!!!

[Yosemitest]

We start by letting South Korea do what it's been practicing since before 1985 (my 1st of 5 short tours in the ROK).
North Korea had a rogue General at a base about 70 miles West-North West of Seoul that wanted to go ahead an launch an attack on Seoul to start the war, in 1989, and get North Korea's losing over with.
He saw his fellow Koreas starving and all of North Korea's infrastructure collapsing, and knew that once South Korea won, then his people would get a better life.

[SteveH]

somehow “cannot be located” seems a bit like military public affairs hyperbole to me...

[justa-hairyape]

Gee Obama, see how this guy negotiates ? More than doubles his deployed artillery and sends 70 % of his submarine forces into theater, while sitting at the negotiating table. You on the other hand, have your main negotiator break his own leg, while riding a bike for a photo op. The North Koreans are playing big league hardball and your amateur league bluff is about to be called.

[Forty-Niner]

Cruising for a bruising?

[dinodino]

Yeah, but each is only 20 feet long...

[Reno89519]

Catch and release or just run over and say Oops?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Historically, that is one of their main missions.

[Yosemitest]

“cannot be located”

That might mean that the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF has pulled out the P-3 Orion Sub Hunters from the Korean/Japanese "theater".
The Yellow Sea is a "shallow" sea, so if the mini-subs “cannot be located”, then they're in the Sea of Japan, or they're in rivers in North Korea, which are also shallow.

[R_Kangel]

.... Dows this mean they all ..... I mean ..... ALL OF THEM ..... sank in the Royal Birdbath?

[TigerLikesRooster]

:-)

[FreedomPoster]

Just for the record, those don’t look like tanks, but rather artillery. A tank is not an infantry fighting vehicle is not a self propelled gun is not a tracked SAM launcher, though all of them have tracks and varying amounts of armor.

[justa-hairyape]

We still do not know what sunk that SK ship a few years ago. Or have they determined that definitively ?

[mkjessup]

BFL - thanks TLR

[Smokin' Joe]

China poised to do a repeat of crossing the Yalu? Crap!

[justa-hairyape]

The one thing connecting China and South Korea was trade. And we just had a massive explosion that had a major impact on one of China’s largest ports.

[TigerLikesRooster]

That was determined to be a N. Korean bubble-jet torpedo. They analyzed debris collected from the site and matched to a model of N. Korean torpedoes. One piece of debris even had a marking written in Korean.

[DoughtyOne]

Those would be height challenged submarines...

Come on... = :^)