Posted on 08/23/2015 12:08:44 AM PDT by 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
North Korea positions its artillery inside DMZ
orth Korea has set up its artillery inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in its efforts to stop South Korea’s broadcasts against the North.
The North reportedly brought 76.2-millimeter artillery guns into the DMZ and positioned more military units behind the DMZ on Saturday, according to Yonhap News Agency.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/08/485_185362.html
Only one question remains: Is Kim suicidal?
Inquiring minds need to know.
Thanks.
Yours was good too...
Crickets from the Muslim CINC? Kerry will go and hand then S Korea.
Maybe they defecting LOL!
I worked at Pax River, MD when I was with NMCI and saw those things up close, interesting planes.
This may be the last chance given the growth of SK and the decline of NK. L’il Kim may think it’s time to move.
Actually, NORKs have some very quiet DE boats.
They usually do some rattling when they are negotiating
That’s true, and a lot of folks that make fun of the Norks don’t know the amount of damage they could do in a short time. And I wouldn’t count on their people defecting in large numbers. Generations of them have been indoctrinated to worship their leader. Think Japan...And even though their nukes may not be the latest thing, they do have them, and no nukes are obsolete,IMHO, Hope it’s just another bluff.
Could this explosions at the U.S. Army depot in Sagamiharain Japan be due to the Norks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9F0MZEHq-M
That’s what they have been doing for decades.
I didn’t know that. An interesting development.
I think that if push came to shove, they’d rather administer NK than see a unified ROK Korea on their border. I’d be more than surprised to see the ROKs cross the DMZ with conventional forces. That would mean coordination with us, and the approval of the Obama administration, which isn’t going to happen.
China might be looking ahead to the possibility of a President Trump though, with less of a certainty that the DPRK’s usual martial shenanigans would be ignored. They might look at him as a potential President MacArthur, in terms of policy direction.
If they were going to do that, they’d have to do it soon, so as to have it be a militarily-settled issue by the time the next US president takes office. I guess the place to watch is going to be the Sino-Korean border.
It also occurs to me that the ROK might not really be keen for unification. Remembering German reunification- I recall that it put a significant load on the FRG to bring the country as a whole up to speed and I’ve heard that the burden of integrating the DDR is still being felt. If the integration of the DDR was hard, doing so with the DPRK with it’s long-standing isolation would be much worse.
I doubt Seoul would be overrun. Horribly battered in the first 30 minutes, yes, but at that point the NK border & several miles north would be carpet-bombed to a pulp along with much of Pyongyang, and the remaining NK troops - largely emaciated - would be facing their own invasion by well-fed well-equipped very-angry SK & USA troops.
More like Korea would be reunified in 3 days.
Seems to me that it would be wise to have something like SOSUS carpeting the bottom of their waters, with very well-guarded shore-side infrastructure.
>>More like Korea would be reunified in 3 days.
I think you’re absolutely right. The first thing the North Korean troops would do (if the didn’t get shot) would be to go into the nearest restaurant, throw down their gun, and beg for food.
That has got to be the noisiest Sub on the planet.
Wow, good question. As much as I follow this kind of thing, I was unaware of that.
How critical is that facility to the logistics pipeline on the peninsula?
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