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Posted on 03/26/2010 8:05:15 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
South Korean naval ship fired at an unidentified vessel to the north on Friday after a South Korean naval vessel began sinking, the Yonhap news agency reported. Broadcaster SBS said many sailors were feared dead on the stricken ship.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
And will the Chi-coms back NK this time...?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/world/asia/31korea.html
The timing is convenient for the communists as all their efforts to overthrow the US from within are begining to unravel with the American public outrage. Looks timely for a further power grab time, possible war powers and that much farther down the road to totalitarianism. Scary! There must be a response, however no one can trust the current office holder and administration. WEAK! We the people are on our own!
Kim is ill. This could determine successor in DPRK.
Unless there was an inbound sonar track, I'm thinking it could have been a mine. (Just a thought)
DPRK nuc threat is way overrated. One successful out of two shots at bottom of mineshaft is very different from a deployed, deliverable weapons system.
ATTN: TLR and AIT, As they say in the Royal Navy ships; "Wakey, Wakey, Wakey. All Hands On Deck"
The South Korean government has convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in the wake of what could have been a hostile sinking of a South Korean warship in the Yellow Sea on March 26.
Though details are still unconfirmed, it appears that the 1,200-ton corvette Chon An (771) suffered a catastrophic explosion in its stern and sunk rapidly at 9:45 p.m. local time. Reports suggest that many of the 104 sailors aboard the ship, which was patrolling in waters southwest of Baengnyeong Island at the time of the explosion, are feared dead.
If the US didn't do anything after the USS Pueblo incident, what makes you think we'd do anything about South Korea's loss?
Sheesh. Keep some perspective, people.
Submarines
Type Class Country of Origin In Service
Diesel coastal midget submarine Sang-O class Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 32
Diesel powered submarine Ming class (Type-031) People’s Republic of China 22
Diesel-electric submarine Whiskey class Soviet Union 4
I was thinking the Brit ship was sunk via a missile from a Argentine fighter jet. Am I thinking wrong?
I don’t even know what to speculate at this point. If so, then God save the ROK. Because I doubt that we will.
Post after yours quotes the local news story as indicating the explosion was at the ship’s stern.
Does NK have mines which can attack independently, or only moored floating on a teather like those WWII underwater sputnik type? (not looking for anyone to spill any beans here please) but unless the mine was self-targeting in some way it sounds more like a torpedo than a mine to impact the stern, to this civilian...
Another possibility I suppose, is two mines joined together, which then pull into a common point if a ship runs into that teather. That could hit the stern on the side of the vessel it would seem.
In fact, you have to sail about 100 miles out to sea on the return to Seoul to avoid coastal shelling from the N Koreans.
probably will bomb the port where the sub presumably came out of.
One US sailor died in the Pueblo incident - in a location half a world removed the US.
upwards of 50 S. Korean sailors just died right in their own back yard, likely as the result of hostile NK fire. You think the S. Korean population is going to let the SK .gov sit on its hands?
I see a pretty big difference . . . time will tell
I think he’s refering to the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser by a Brit sub. They took out one their biggest vessels and the rest of the fleet ran back to port.
Initial reports (often wrong) are that the SK vessel was hit in the stern and sank. Probably few got off. Certainly nobody in the engineering spaces got out.
“It’s the USS COLE effect! Nothing to see here folks, just some ‘misunderstood’ ‘man-caused disaster caused by man’ thing, move along!”
/MSM
BRING ON THE DRAFT, THEN! Woot!
Not really. The Argentinian AF sank the HMS Sheffield (sp?) with an Exocet missile. You're right on that.
But, prior to that the British Royal Navy's nuclear sub HMS Conqueror, sank an Argentinian cruiser (name escapes me). It was the only time, I believe, that a nuclear-powered sub has sank another vessel with a torpedo attack.
The was another torpedo sinking right around that time between India and Pakistan, but I think the Falklands incident was after the Indian incident.
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