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07-06-2010, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by steven View Post
I may be crazy... but I found it awfully strange in the timing in all that. Wasn't that just around the time that there was talk of removing an American base from Japan? It's funny that in the midst of those talks something like that should happen. I know it's not far from a conspiracy theory, but what komitsuki said should definitely be a consideration. Otherwise it was really dumb timing on NK's part. Of course I just read the news that I read and connected the dots... hopefully someone more educated on the matter will jump in, because I'd like to hear from them about this.
First of all, it is pretty impossible to navigate in a 1970-1980s Soviet-Yugoslavian submarine on a very shallow sea close to the coast. Old sonars don't work properly in this environment.

Second, anti-submarine helicopters and planes are very often active in the Yellow Sea trying to find a North Korean submarine. Pretty impossible for North Korea to reach Incheon or surrounding areas. Especially when the huge Incheon International Airport is also a semi-military fortification.

Third, there are few times North Korean submarines were active down to South Korea, but they were always done around the eastern coast of South Korea. Pretty impossible for them to be active on the western coast (the Yellow Sea).

Grow some backbone, Americans. Love North Korea for the sake of stability (and respecting China and Russia).


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