And if you read the last paragraph, they refer to the "Rodong" missile.
Ain't no such thing. It's a NODONG missile.
Looking at their website, it looks like shit that was too crazy for even Pravda to publish. These are the same asshats that tried to claim that Obama ordered 1 million troops to be ready for the outbreak of civil war.
My bets are on eco-terrorist...it happened the day before Earth Day....
And now, after spending a herd of perfectly good electrons on this query I feel like a dope...but at least I gave long-time colleagues a good laugh.
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As for the gentleman who disclaimed the spelling and pronunciation of 'Nodong' vs 'Rodong,' the N & R sounds are oddities of Hangul-Mal (the Korean language)...I don't have the software to show the Korean characters that make up Rodong, but in Hangul, the character that equates to our "R" sound is also used for our "N" sound, but Hangul is generally pronounced as the "R" sound...but as we Anglicize the character, we make it the "N" sound...either pronunciation is correct.
The story seemed odd to me because I've sat across the Armistice Agreement negotiating table looking and talking directly to the KPA/DPRK representatives on the other side,
But just to be sure, I checked with people who watch the north Koreans every day...there is no ship bearing the name reported in the story and both KPA and Party Special Ops forces and naval assets are all accounted for.
One of my friends works for the Russian northern Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok and when I asked him about Ms. Faal's story he wrote back that he had nearly fallen off his chair from laughing so hard...I also checked with MARFORPAC and PACOM in Hawaii and got similar responses from old friends still working there.
Hostile space aliens would be a much more likely explanation than a Nork sub loose in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeeze.(http://www.youthink.com/images/2009/08/14/youthinkdotcom_3019709_164669.jpg)
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TiT, is that you?????
I've noticed on Facebook that many people are leaning towards some sort of conspiracy theory as far as this oil rig getting blown up. Albeit not necessarily the N Korean theory, but possibly our own Government or some other nefarious faction. I find it pretty "convenient" that 0bama was just discussing more drilling and then this crap "just happens". (No cause has yet been determined) The timing seems to be impeccable, IMO.
TiT, is that you?????
Kind of like the lawsuit against Goldman Sachs and Wallstreet reform legislation?
This story was written by SORCHA FAAL aka The Queen of Internet Hoax stories...
here is a link to there home page with this story smack dab in the middle of it....
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1367.htm
Aw shit!
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=43723.0
I am too fracking tired to delete it, I just wanted a hand-hold and a little input.
Now, how would North Korea end up in the Gulf of Mexico. That's quite a travel from North Korea to Mississippi Delta.
Something like a deilberate attack on an oil platform would explain the Obama soundbite last week that he was sending Swat Teams out to the platforms.
That SWAT team comment really made no sense, unless he had information that it was not an accident. Strangely, that hasn't been covered by the news .
Not really. The ChiComs own both ends of the Canal now...along with most of the Canal Zone. To the point that ChiCom troops have conducted training missions at our old installations.
Slip a NoKo sub through the canal at night...let it dock at a Cuban Naval base...there you go.
Getting a diesel boat all the way across the Pacific and sneaking through the canal with it, even with the covert help of the canal operator, is a whole lot more difficult than you think. We have assets all over Panama, and nothing goes through it unsurveilled, not even counting the sats. The locks are far too shallow for a sub to go through submerged.
At the risk of sounding tinfoil-ish...do you really think this administration is looking that closely at what the ChiComs and North Korea are doing these days? And even if they did...just turn a blind eye to it?
As someone pointed out in another context yesterday on television (to some idiot who was crowing about how wonderful the government was with Obama in charge vs. how bad it was under Bush, in fact), it's the same govenment and intelligence organizations that we had before the election, but just with new figureheads. Granted the new ones all have their own pet rocks like teh Ghey DOD, wimmin on subs, and 'Dialog' with Iran, but all the operators and agencies are still doing essentially the same stuff.
50,000 extra N Korean troops deployed along border
SEOUL, May 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has recently deployed about 50,000 special forces along its border with South Korea, a source here said Wednesday, as tension rises on the divided peninsula over a suspected deadly North Korean attack on a South Korean warship.
"North Korea recently completed the frontline deployment of seven light infantry divisions, which is something it had been pushing for since two to three years ago," the high-level source said, adding each division consists of about 7,000 troops.
Not really. The ChiComs own both ends of the Canal now...along with most of the Canal Zone. To the point that ChiCom troops have conducted training missions at our old installations.
Slip a NoKo sub through the canal at night...let it dock at a Cuban Naval base...there you go.
I think The Onion or The Bunny News Network is more reliable than that sight.:hi5:
50,000 extra N Korean troops deployed along border
SEOUL, May 5 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has recently deployed about 50,000 special forces along its border with South Korea, a source here said Wednesday, as tension rises on the divided peninsula over a suspected deadly North Korean attack on a South Korean warship.
"North Korea recently completed the frontline deployment of seven light infantry divisions, which is something it had been pushing for since two to three years ago," the high-level source said, adding each division consists of about 7,000 troops.
Wouldn't that be another 50K troops.
It's not like the NK border isn't already fairly heavily loaded with combat assets.
Not really. The ChiComs own both ends of the Canal now...along with most of the Canal Zone. To the point that ChiCom troops have conducted training missions at our old installations.
Slip a NoKo sub through the canal at night...let it dock at a Cuban Naval base...there you go.
A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., that has caused great loss of life, untold billions in economic damage to the South Korean economy, and an environmental catastrophe to the United States.
Most important to understand about this latest attack by North Korea against its South Korean enemy is that under the existing “laws of war†it was a permissible action as they remain in a state of war against each other due to South Korea’s refusal to sign the 1953 Armistice ending the Korean War.
To the attack itself, these reports continue, the North Korean “cargo vessel†Dai Hong Dan believed to be staffed by 17th Sniper Corps “suicide†troops left Cuba’s Empresa Terminales Mambisas de La Habana (Port of Havana) on April 18th whereupon it “severely deviated†from its intended course for Venezuela’s Puerto Cabello bringing it to within 209 kilometers (130 miles) of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform which was located 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the coast of the US State of Louisiana where it launched an SSC Sang-o Class Mini Submarine (Yugo class) estimated to have an operational range of 321 kilometers (200 miles).
On the night of April 20th the North Korean Mini Submarine manned by these “suicidal†17th Sniper Corps soldiers attacked the Deepwater Horizon with what are believed to be 2 incendiary torpedoes causing a massive explosion and resulting in 11 workers on this giant oil rig being killed outright. Barely 48 hours later, on April 22nd , this North Korean Mini Submarine committed its final atrocity by exploding itself directly beneath the Deepwater Horizon causing this $1 Billion oil rig to sink beneath the seas and marking 2010’s celebration of Earth Day with one of the largest environmental catastrophes our World has ever seen.
more at link
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blackout-over-north-korean-torpedoing-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rig/
If this is true.... holy shi'ite.