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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea launches missile from submarine
2016-04-24
North Korea has fired what is believed to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday.
So they launched an SLBM, but not necessarily from a sub...
The missile was fired at 6:30 p.m. local time (5:30 a.m. ET), South Korean officials said, and appears to have flown for about 30 km (about 19 miles) -- well short of the 300 km (roughly 186 miles) that would be considered a successful test.

The action comes a week after an apparently unsuccessful attempt to fire a missile, South Korean and U.S. officials said April 15.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Let's sing of the loss of the Pudgeon,
The bludgeon of Juche's curmudgeon:
'Twas manned by his slaves
Who went glad to their graves
To escape from his landlubbin' dungeon.

And God rest the men of the Gudgeon. 72 years (can that be right?) last week.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-04-24 22:59  

#5  Run Pudgy, Run Deep.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-04-24 22:08  

#4  "One pudge only, please."
Posted by: SteveS   2016-04-24 18:41  

#3  "The Hunt for Pudgy October"?
Posted by: Matt   2016-04-24 16:22  

#2  ...The good news here - such as it is - is that it's overwhelmingly likely that this was a one-off missile from a one-off, highly modified boat...and the only boats he's got are sufficiently old and noisy that they could be heard in Virginia Beach by a deaf, retired sonarman standing next to I-64 at rush hour using two Quaker Oats cans tied together with string.

The bad news is that this is something of a game changer - if he can put even one tube to sea, and we lose track of it (highly unlikely, but within the realm of possibility) he could start making demands, which would leave us in a situation that would make even Tom Clancy, may God rest his soul, look up and say, "Dude..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-04-24 09:42  

#1  Of course Seoul is only @35 miles from the DMZ and less from the coast.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-04-24 06:15  

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