You've got to love President Bush! NK's Lil Kim must by now grasp the implications of a mine recon drone outside the port of Hamhung.
As in, you send in the recon drone *prior* to something more valuable/powerful/capable moving in.
Posted on 08/07/2006 4:43:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea claims capture of U.S. submersible
By KWANG-TAE KIM, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 36 minutes ago
North Korea claimed it has captured an unmanned U.S. submersible and put it on display in Pyongyang, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Monday. The U.S. dismissed the report.
The small vessel was captured during a reconnaissance mission in waters off North Korea's eastern city of Hamhung, said the Choson Sinbo newspaper, which is published by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang government.
The newspaper report on its Web site, which is monitored in Seoul, was accompanied by a picture purported to be of the black torpedo-shaped U.S. vessel. There were no further details as to when or how North Korea obtained it.
A spokesman for the U.S. military in South Korea, David Oten, dismissed the report.
"We have nothing unaccounted for and there is no way for us to verify that this is a U.S. vessel," Oten said.
Last September, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il instructed officials to put the captured vessel on public display next to the spy ship USS Pueblo, which the communist regime seized along with its crew of 82 in 1968, the newspaper said. The crew was released after 11 months.
The Pueblo, moored to the bank of the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is now the site of tours to inspire anti-U.S. sentiment among the country's 23 million people. Some 1,500 North Koreans made daily visits to the Pueblo during a recent month-long, anti-U.S. rally period, said the newspaper.
Despite repeated U.S. assurances that it has no intention of attacking the North, the communist country frequently claims that Washington seeks to invade it and that the U.S. is driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.
The North recently raised regional tensions by test-launching seven missiles, including a new long-range model believed capable of reaching the U.S. that failed shortly after takeoff.
It looks like the Hunley!
The South Shall Rise Again, and overthrow that rittle rownrey guy!!!
Maybe so, but good luck on recruiting the 4th crew for the Hunley.
Why don't you and Kenny Bunco have a nice chat together?
If they can put a missile together, even one that only flies a few miles ,and they can build a nuclear weapon, we have to assume they can figure a way into this thing.
Maybe it's a WWII leftover from the Japanese navy...... they probably based some stuff in Korea, which was under their control.......
North Koreans were once competent enough to use hand tools, but lately it seems someone has eaten all the handles. For their sake, I hope this torpedo is ethanol-fueled, and that they all get a chance to suck on it. That could be as close to a national holiday as these poor bastards are ever likely to get.
North Koreans were once competent enough to use hand tools, but lately it seems someone has eaten all the handles. For their sake, I hope this torpedo is ethanol-fueled, and that they all get a chance to suck on it. That could be as close to a national holiday as these poor bastards are ever likely to get.
I was thinking the same thing before I even saw the picture. Gilligan being chased around the camp by the torpedo with that great chase music playing. Loved it!
You've got to love President Bush! NK's Lil Kim must by now grasp the implications of a mine recon drone outside the port of Hamhung.
As in, you send in the recon drone *prior* to something more valuable/powerful/capable moving in.
That looks like a torpedo...
Almost, but not quite:
"Some 1,500 North Koreans -- lured by the promise of a steamed dumpling each -- made daily visits to the Pueblo during a recent month-long, anti-U.S. rally period, and the government had its hands full preventing visitors from trying to eat everything in sight, said what was left of the newspaper.
Many North Koreans admitted that they thought
it was really Pueblo Colorado they were visiting and most hoped to get a US.Government booklet on how to escape communism.
There we go! Now its fixed.
Actually the drive end looks quite similar to the one pictured in reply 38.
Heh, hen, all their are mines belong to us.
The USS Trojan Horse :-D
ping
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