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| ROK Navy 'Was Warned of Nork Human Torpedoes' |
| 2010-04-22 |
| Military intelligence early this year alerted the Navy to the threat of "human torpedo" attacks from North Korea, which was pledging revenge for its defeat in a sea skirmish in November last year, it emerged Wednesday. "Human torpedoes" are underwater suicide squads who operate torpedoes equipped with a mini motor or engine to sneak up to a target and blow it up. "Military authorities detected several signs showing that the North was preparing for revenge for its defeat in the sea skirmish in November last year," a government official said. "The North intensively trained military units for various means of attack, in particular human torpedoes." The North is reportedly operating a brigade of suicide attack squads each in its East Sea and West Sea fleets. But it is still unclear whether the Navy corvette Cheonan was sunk by a North Korean human torpedo on March 26. Navy ships charged with defending the maritime frontline in the West Sea were ordered to keep at speeds faster than 12 knots to guard against any retaliatory attack from the North, but the Cheonan was traveling at only six knots before it sank, the official added. "Despite the possibility of retaliatory attacks, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had deployed Navy ships on duty at the West Sea frontline including Baeknyeong, Yeonpyeong and Socheong islands, closer to the frontline than in the past." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Active sonar would put an end to that shit real quick. They'd come floatin to the surface like dead fish. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-04-22 19:16 |
| #6 Human Torpedo? You must have spoken to my wife. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2010-04-22 14:01 |
| #5 At least a 65 year old concept from the Japanese WWII...longer if one considers some of the covert ops of the 1st gen subs trying to place a mine on wooden ships, even further depending on how loose one wants to get with the definition of suicide mission. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-04-22 11:41 |
| #4 'Warnings' against torpedoes achieve nothing. What are you going to do, not patrol where torpedoes might be used? Instead, hopefully what will happen is that Skor agents will infiltrate up North and blow up a few vital dams, which will leave them with little electricity for a year. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-04-22 09:28 |
| #3 In the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranians sent waves of children against Iraq's machine guns to waste their ammo and overheat them before guys with guns attacked. Human torpedoes would be nothing. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-04-22 07:31 |
| #2 Seeing as the Norks and the Iranians are cooperating on everything, perhaps this is part of what they meant by unconventional techniques they would use against us if we were to attack. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-22 02:07 |
| #1 IIUC Kimmie waited from 11/2009 until CHINA sent a potent task force on high seas "Show the Flag/Dragon's Teeth" to order a "human torpedo" suicide attack agz the Cheonan??? * WORLD NEWS > NORTH KOREA DEMANDS "NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE" STATUS, which the USA = POTUS BAmmer has repor rejected. * SAME > SEOUL REJECTS REDEPLOYMENT OF US NUCLEAR WEAPONS, in face of Cheonan incident + dev DPRK nuclear threats. READ, NUKE SUMMIT 2012. * TOPIX > NORTH KOREA: WE WILL PRODUCE AS MANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS NEEDED, to defend agz the US-Allied threat. Wherefore goes NORTH KOREA's NUKES, so goes IRAN'S NUCPROGS and vicey verseys. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-22 01:23 |