North Korea 'fires missile from submarine'

[NWCorona]

Source: BBC



North Korea has fired a submarine-based ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says.

The reported test follows an attempted launch last month that South Korea said failed in its initial flight stage.

North Korea, believed to be developing nuclear weapons, is banned by the UN from any use of ballistic missiles.

The latest launch comes after Pyongyang threatened retaliation for joint US-South Korea military exercises that it sees as a rehearsal for invasion.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/37171608

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Remember when people made fun of Bernie when he called out NK as a threat?

[TheBaculumKing]

1. Well, That's One Way to Make Sure

You actually hit an ocean.

[Purveyor]

2. Also see: N. Korea threatens pre-emptive nuke strike over Seoul's military drill

North Korea on Monday threatened to mount a "preemptive nuclear strike" on South Korea and the United States as the allies kicked off their annual military exercise aimed at countering Pyongyang's potential aggression.

The command and control exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian, began its two-week run on Monday, involving tens of thousands of South Korean and U.S. forces.

This year's drill came amid unusually heightened inter-Korean tensions following the defection of a London-based North Korean senior diplomat to South Korea.

South Korea and the U.S. "should bear in mind that if they show the slightest sign of aggression on (DPRK's) inviolable land, seas and air ..., it would turn the stronghold of provocation into a heap of ashes through Korean-style preemptive nuclear strike," an English-language statement by the country's General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), carried by the state-run Korean Central News agency, said.

more...

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/08/485_212418.html

[NWCorona]

5. Yeah that's some scary stuff. I actually think he's more dangerous than his father.

[Purveyor]

6. I absolutely agree with that... eom

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Has the submarine been recovered yet?

[Orrex]

10. Only the screen door.

[christx30]

24. Ok. Thread is over. You win. Nt

[Orrex]

26. Well, thanks to Gidney N Cloyd for the great setup

Credit where due!

[GP6971]

25. Too funny. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. But it was coated with Flex Seal

[MattP]

4. And John Bolton is going for Bush's cabinet

How many more countries will go nucluer with Bolton in charge of our foreign policy?

[forest444]

7. Bolton the walrus must be pleased with himself.

It was thanks to Dubya's sabre rattling, after all, that North Korea abandoned the 1994 Agreed Framework Jimmy Carter negotiated with the late Kim Jong Il.

Their facilities were under constant UN surveillance for a decade, and in all that time nothing moved - until Lil' Kim tore up the agreement.

The MIC has been ecstatic about the possibility of all-out war with North Korea ever since.

[NWCorona]

8. John "To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran" Bolton is nuts.

I don't think people realize how much pull he had/has.

[forest444]

16. The Shrub would have too, and was about to do so in '06 hoping to stave off a mid-term 'thumping'.

But Iran's Russian-supplied anti-aircraft defenses simply made it impractical (thank goodness).

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Is that the submarine in the picture?

[NWCorona]

14. It might be the sub but it's not the missile

The article says it that the picture was from April.

[JoePhilly]

11. Bernie was the first to say NK was a threat?

ok.

[NWCorona]

12. Did I say that?

[JoePhilly]

13. Sounds like it.

You should feel free to be more clear in your OPs on such matters.

Maybe include some links to all the people who laughed at Bernie for making such a suggestion.

[NWCorona]

15. Why so hostile? Lol

Maybe you don't remember the pundits panning him when he said this?

But truthfully if you don't remember then I really wasn't talking to you.

I hate to break it to you but the primary is over. Hillary won. Everyone knows this so when Bernie's name is brought up it really shouldn't trigger you like that.

[Plucketeer]

17. Ya reckon

upon hearing of this, she would've run for an armored vehicle with her head down?

[MyNameGoesHere]

18. Well after the country of ISIS

He did say North Korea, you are correct.

[NWCorona]

19. He didn't say country and you know it. That was the question posed

And Bernie immediately interjected with that group and I agree with him. That's all I'll say on it and feel free to frame as you wish.

[LanternWaste]

35. Hence, making him part and parcel of your OP

"I hate to break it to you but the primary is over. Hillary won...."

Hence, you making him part and parcel of your OP, yet protesting when others reply in kind.

[NWCorona]

36. When did I protest?

[judesedit]

20. When Bush took office North Korea had 1 nuke. When he left they had 8.

[NWCorona]

21. The Bush doctrine armed the world!

[tonyt53]

27. Actually, they had none and their nuclear program was mothballed. But that changed.

Bill Clinton, working with the UN, got NK to stop production of any more nuclear materials and shut down the program. They had no bomb and were a few years away from having one. In the summer of 2001, Bush reneged on the part of the agreement that allowed NK to import much more food from the US. Within a year, NK had restarted their nuclear program. In about 3-4 more years, they detonated their first nuclear bomb.

[lordsummerisle]

22. With all the sanctions in place

where are they getting the hardware and support for these launches?

[NutmegYankee]

30. We developed this technology in the 1950s.

It doesn't require the latest advanced technology.

[lordsummerisle]

31. They still need parts, supplies and training n/t

[NutmegYankee]

34. Machine shops, mines, and an inexhaustible supply of peasantry. nt

[lordsummerisle]

38. Hard to believe

they could manufacture all of the hardware for this. There would have to be channels for smuggling in place, probably sanctioned by China.

[titaniumsalute]

23. I don't think I'd like to ride in a North Korean Submarine...

Tupperware is probably more airtight.

[jberryhill]

29. It's impressive what motivated people can do

You see? If people all pull together, they can do great things.

[Sunlei]

32. That's a beautiful coastline NK has there, would make a wonderful resort location. To bad their coun

country is so oppressed.

[randome]

33. Anyone read "The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson?

Won the Pulitzer Prize. It shows how ugly and scary it is to live in North Korea. If any country "deserves" invasion and nation-building, it would be North Korea, imo.

But that never turns out well, no matter what, does it?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[MowCowWhoHow III]

37. North Korea's Kim declares sub-launched missile 'greatest success': KCNA

North Korea's Kim declares sub-launched missile 'greatest success': KCNA

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile and declared it "the greatest success" that put the country in the "front rank" of nuclear military powers, official media reported on Thursday.

North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Wednesday which flew about 500 kilometers (300 miles). The South Korean government and experts said the launch showed technical progress in the North's SLBM program.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKCN10Z2TX?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

[TheBaculumKing]

40. Not Much Fish

For a missile that size. Hell, a redneck can catch that much with three sticks of dynamite and a six-pack.

[NWCorona]

42. That picture is cropped way to close so I'm willing to bet that's the only fish on location

The ghost ships washing up in Japan leads credence to the thinking their fisheries are gone. Those feeble boats are going out well beyond their means.

[tenderfoot]

39. This is more frightening than climate change.

How will I sleep this evening?

[NWCorona]

41. Warm milk?