North Korea Claims Capture of US Submersible

[Rhino]

North Korea Claims Capture of U.S. Submersible

Monday, August 07, 2006

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed it has captured an unmanned U.S. submersible and put it on display in Pyongyang near the captured spy ship USS Pueblo, a pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan said Monday, but the U.S. dismissed the report.

The ultra-small unmanned submersible vessel was captured during a reconnaissance mission in waters off North Korea's eastern city of Hamhung, said the Choson Sinbo newspaper, which is published by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang government.

The newspaper report on its Web site, monitored in Seoul, was accompanied by a picture purported to be of the black torpedo-shaped U.S. vessel. There were no further details as to when or how North Korea obtained it.

Last September, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il instructed officials to put the new spy vessel on public display along with the ship Pueblo that the communist regime captured in 1968, the newspaper said.

A spokesman for the U.S. military in South Korea, David Oten, dismissed the report........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207258,00.html

[Beowulf]

Another way for N. Korea to get attention, just like a child having a temper tantrum!

[Marla]

Perhaps a Nuclear Spanking would be appropriate?

Another interesting excerpt from the article is:

The Pueblo, moored to the bank of the Taedong River in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, is now the site of tours to inspire anti-U.S. sentiment among the country's 23 million people.
Some 1,500 North Koreans made daily visits to the Pueblo during a recent monthlong anti-U.S. rally period, said the newspaper

1,500 out of 23,000,000 showed up?........ hmmmmmmm, doesn't sound like too much anti-US sentiment amongst the general population to me.

[kkkron]

Well it's hard for them, see. They have such a crap country that most of them can't afford to go and see it, don't have the means of transport, don't have the communication links to even find out about it in the first place, and/or don't know how to read. Given that, 1,500 seems a shockingly large number to me.

[DesertFox]

Dammit, they got my rubber ducky! :flame: