North Korea Launches Nuclear Attack Submarine

Breitbart ^ | September 8, 2023 | John Hayward

[Reno89519]

North Korea claimed to launch its first nuclear attack submarine on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by a very excited Kim Jong-un, but the South Korean military quickly pointed out that the submarine does not appear operational or capable of carrying a heavy payload of nuclear missiles.

Dictator Kim Jong-un gushed over the sub at its lavish launch ceremony, which came three days before the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist dictatorship. The corpulent dictator looked like the world’s most sinister child unwrapping an unexpected gift on Christmas morning:

The sub was ostentatiously christened Hero Kim Kun-ok, the name of a famous North Korean naval officer from the Korean War. It appears to be a slight variation on a Russian Romeo-class diesel submarine design, with ten visible missile launch tubes.

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“These submarines will be equipped with a vast array of nuclear delivery vehicles of varying power and will be poised to launch preemptive and retaliatory strikes at any time underwater,” Kim boasted.

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[Reno89519]

Will be watching to see if it suffers a catastrophic failure on its first deployment into international waters. Would be a shame if it mysteriously disappears or sinks.

[woofer2425]

The Norks are probably saying that the “God leader” built and designed the entire sub by himself.

[JonPreston]

Biden has united most of the world against US

[twister881]

“It’s only a model.” Uses baking soda to submerge and surface.

[dfwgator]

Which is the sub and which one’s Kim? Hard to tell.

[mbrfl]

They’re calling that puny thing, a sub?

[bigbob]

This is like Hunter Biden being named CEO of Pfizer

[beethovenfan]

Hope for improde.

[Vendome]

Hull is made of Titanic composite...

[Col Frank Slade]

Looks like a giant North Korean condom..

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Puts me in mind of those “two-man submarines” that they used to advertise in comic books.

[tomkat]

Doesn’t look much bigger than WWII boat, if that.

[fruser1]

If it weren’t for Clinton letting them have nuclear power plants, they probably would be running diesels today.

[Shady]

I thought Cheeseboy was laying off the Brie and Camembert?

[umbagi]

It’s a Russian Romeo (633) class diesel-electric boat, built between 1957 and 1961; the Norks have been working on it since 2019. The only thing “nuclear” about it is its possible armament.

I seriously doubt that it can get close enough to the US to bother us, even with an SLBM small enough to be carried. This is to torment S. Korea and Japan.

[Coronal]

Here’s a spy photo of it.

https://misternizz.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/polaris-nuclear-sub.jpg

[Hiddigeigei]

Maybe we should give South Korean and Japan five of them armed with hydrogen nuclear weapons.

[FrankRizzo890]

And you know, things like that tend to happen. The radios go out, and then they implode. Damnedest thing.

[threefinger]

No one needs a nukular-powered submarine unless they have or aspire to a blue water navy. The Norks don’t.

Then again, this wouldn’t be the first move the Norks have made that defied military logic.

[Hiddigeigei]

"Maybe we should give South Korean and Japan five of them armed with hydrogen nuclear weapons."
On second thought, I have a certain sympathy with the poor snooks living in North Korea. In the 1950s, I interviewed a North Korean army major defector when I was in the army in Seoul. He seemed like a pretty sensible guy just trying to survive. He had to defect to save his life because he was in the wrong China-versus-Russia party squabble (the losers were being executed). I don't know what happened to him. I hope he built a good like for himself in South Korea.