N. Korea Says It Tested Ballistic Missile From Submarine

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMAY 8, 2015, 9:51 P.M. E.D.T.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Saturday it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in what would be the latest display of the country's advancing military capability.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally attended the test launching of what he described as a "world-level strategic weapon," the official Korean Central News Agency said. The report did not reveal the exact timing and location of the launch.

Kim praised the test launch as an "eye-opening success" and declared that the North Korea now has a weapon capable of "striking and wiping out in any waters the hostile forces infringing upon the sovereignty and dignity of (North Korea)."

On Kim's orders, the submarine submerged and after a while a missile soared into the sky from underwater, the agency said.

South Korea's defense ministry said last year that it believed North Korea was developing technologies for launching ballistic missiles off submarines.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/08/world/asia/ap-as-koreas-tensions-.html?_r=0

[TexasTowelie]

1. Where are the right-wingers to protest about NK getting nuclear weapons

while Bush was president?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Maybe a false claim, possibly true. But they'll likely get it right one of these days.

I wonder how loud their submarines are, and I wonder if we're always 1500 yards behind them with fast attack boats.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. If the Russians can't build one...

that we can't detect, I doubt that North Korea can. The technology is super expensive.

[lordsummerisle]

3. Well, OK

[Kaleva]

4. NK used stolen Mattel technology to launch missile

[Adsos Letter]

8. I HAD one of those!!!

Wow, what an unexpected blast from the past. For a brief moment I could feel myself turning the handle crank.

Never launched any missiles with it though.

[davidpdx]

5. Wait...wait..where are the jackasses with the fake NATO maps

Everyone sing along "It's the United States fault, it's the United States fault, we are shit, we are shit, It's all about the NATO invasion, because the map say so, It's the United States fault, It's the United States fault"

[okaawhatever]

9. I know, right. Maybe the Kremlin doesn't pay them to defend NK on websites, only Putin nt

[NYC Liberal]

19. Oh, there have been a few NK defenders over the years.

Case in point: http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1193414

[okaawhatever]

21. Ah yes. Their pro-NK/anti-US bias is quite obvious. nt

[Brother Buzz]

6. Kim Jong Un taught the captain of the pig boat navigation methods!

[mindwalker_i]

7. They were using Kin Jong Un's ego

as a propellant.

[cstanleytech]

10. No, his ego provided the ballast for the boat his mouth provided the propellant.

[madokie]

11. OOPs

his ass provide the propellant, smelling toxic of cheese

[cstanleytech]

12. Ass, mouth......same thing really for him. nt

[madokie]

13. Well you DO have a point

mybad

[HoosierCowboy]

14. Making a Film Called "Death Wish, North Korea"

If by some unknown reason I was the President, my order to the U.S. Navy would be to sink any North Korean sub as soon as it got into international waters, no exception.
It would be a public announcement, along with opening the covers on the U.S. ICBM complexes to show we mean business. It's time to kick Humpty Dumpty in the nuts...

[Sparhawk60]

24. I Disagree

I would not make a public announcement. I would just do it. Accidents happen all the time and there would be no way to know why the sub sank.

[left-of-center2012]

15. Maybe. Maybe not.

I'd worry more about them putting a nuke on a boat and sailing into a (U.S.) west coast harbor.

[Archae]

16. Late 1940's surplus Soviet submarine.

That was the first thing I thought seeing their "submarine."

[jimmil]

17. You're Right!

First thing I thought when seeing the red stars on the torpedo tubes was Soviet submarine. I've been apart of a sub refit and ours were light years ahead of that one and that has been 30 years ago! That sub has to be 60 years old.

[AngryAmish]

18. and every time it leaves port it must be tracked by 500 billion in our ships

Nice little bargaining chip to use.

[Kaleva]

20. To pay for missile, NK reduced funding for camouflage.

[Turbineguy]

23. Better watch out there L'l Kim....

If the GOP get the White House they'll be looking to steal your poverty and starvation and bring it to the U.S.!