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 regimes 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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Why? Do you talk to him and have insider knowledge that it will never go to sea? :)
If not, then yeah, a little reason to worry.
Afraid he’s not.
I love Trump as president but I’m shocked at how quickly some on this site see a man as almost Godlike in their awe of him.
“Not to worry, fearless leader has it all under control”
There shouldn’t be any work on anything missile related including a missile launching sub.
And no, I dont care if it’s a POS.
The guy over there is a nut and something concrete needs to be done.
That’s great but it will work and it will be able to launch missiles so all the talk of how awful the ship is doesn’t matter if it can launch a nuke and move forward.
I think Kim might want a deal with President Trump.
However, the North Korean military might not.
Also, China is always pulling the strings.
When the Chinese get pissed off about the tariffs, Lil’ Kim always seems to act up....probably at the Chicoms insistence.
And WTF does that solve? :)
Let them trade openly again with no sanctions so they can build more and more dangerous things?
The man on the cross is the one you’re supposed to worship, not any man on earth.
We can love the guy and think he’s doing great but once we wade into, like i said, “supreme leader can do no wrong” territory, we’re in trouble.
But Lil Kim has nuclear warheads, and a history of threatening US allies.
“I myself almost bought a 1960s armored Ferret Scout car.”
I thought those were the coolest thing when I was a kid. Built a model once.
We know he has rudimentary nukes and missiles.
He has not married the two, as to an old Russian diesel boat... who cares?
Kim could paint a flame job on it but it’s still an old tub.
Top speed was 60 even with the Roll Royce engine.
That was what made me pass on it.
Dang old LAVs have a high rate of speed, independent wheel suspension and they swim...
I got one airborne once :)
I once offered to take a gal on a glass bottomed boat.
She said oh baby, I don’t want no fish looking up my skirt...
DPRK, China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela are all in cahoots.
Does anyone think Iran popping into the G7 uninvited was a bit odd?
Were they upset over pistachio futures?, Caviar?
——DPRK, China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela are all in cahoots.-—
They get together on Saturday nights to complain about the Trumpian Sanctions
Then there is Pakistan and India..
Enemies all around..
I bet the do, listen to them squeal.
So’s the Enola Gay. If he can get one short-range missile off California in that sub, and with it blow up Malibu, the US will have to obliterate a whole country because their fat f@#$ of a leader decided to take out Malibu as a negative-attention-getting ploy for his daddy the orange lion.
A Tomahawk or two may delay this program a bit.
and here FatBoy was trying to act nice nice.. just buying time.
Of course. I swear some people act like he had no idea about this. Good grief.
Report: North Korea preparing ballistic missile submarine
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Is there a way to globally replace the word “REPORT” on Free Republic with “LIE”?
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