Posted on 08/28/2019 12:02:09 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
North Korea appears to be preparing to test a new ballistic missile submarine capable of launching nuclear missiles, significantly bolstering the regime’s ability to conduct long-distance attacks.
Satellite photographs taken Monday of the Sinpo South Shipyard in North Korea show the new submarine with nearby cranes and support craft, suggesting the submarine may be in preparation for a launch test.
Last month, North Korea claimed that Kim Jong Un had inspected a “newly built submarine” at the shipyard.
The new photographs appear to confirm the claim, say Joseph Bermudez and Victor Cha of Beyond Parallel, a research project backed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
While North Korea has claimed that the submarine is nearly ready for deployment at sea, however, Bermudez and Cha remain skeptical, suggesting it could take over a year for the submarine to be fully operational, even after its construction has been completed.
If and when the submarine does become operational, it will mark a “significant advancement of the North Korean ballistic missile and nuclear threat and complicate defense planning in the region, given the difficulties of tracking and/or pre-emptively targeting such capabilities,” Bermudez and Cha wrote.
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That’s not a submarine. No sub has a flat deck or pointed prow.
CIA
Oh let them have their little toy.
No.....Madeline Albright got played.
Me too.
Anyone who thinks it will be difficult to track a Norklandian sub is not very smart.
Looks like Eleutheria5 has been played.
I just observe and call it like I see it from my limited vantage, same as you. It looks like Trump has been played, but he will come out on top, I hope. But either way, I’m not in the game so can’t have been played. In the end, we’ll see.
You bomb sub! Brow out of watah! Act of wah! Oops! Thew goes Seoul! Now bomb me back to stone age. I go down in histowy as mahtah for Asian unity. You go down as mean bad man wike Hawwy Twuman, using nukweah weapons. No Nobew Piss Pwize. No reewect. Haha!
Puleeze! Lil Kim and big Kim were ****ing around with old Russian boats before DJT.
Guess what? Iran an Venezuela dabble in that too.
Is there an “antique and curio” category in international arms treaties like the BATF has for firearms?
There used to be, not sure anymore.
I myself almost bought a 1960s armored Ferret Scout car.
No, Kim is hollering........ look at me, look at me, look at me!
The sanctions are still in effect, still strangling North Korea.
Trump is not being played
Kim is squirming and seeking attention
Yup
If you look to the Island just south you'll see lots of subs.
This sub is a piece of junk. Would not last long against our anti-submarine capabilities. You guys need to get a grip.
The Work people are brainwashed just like the Japanese-WW2. It took a bomb and no face saving conditions to stop them.
The solution is simple. We end the Korean war via peace treaty & withdraw our troops from South Korea.
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