`S. Korea slams North over submarine, artillery deployments`

[LongTermGuy]

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North Korea has mobilised dozens of submarines and doubled its artillery units along the border, South Korea said Sunday, accusing Pyongyang of undermining top-level talks aimed at averting a military confrontation.
A defense ministry spokesman said 70 percent of the North's total submarine fleet -- or around 50 vessels -- had left their bases and disappeared from Seoul's military radar.


The movement of such a large number of submarines was "unprecedented," the spokesman said, adding that Seoul and Washington were beefing up their military surveillance in response.

"The number is nearly 10 times the normal level... we take the situation very seriously," he said.
The North has also doubled the number of artillery units along the heavily-fortified land border with the South, he added.


http://news.yahoo.com/korea-slams-north-over-submarine-artillery-deployments-101404618.html

[LongTermGuy]

`These old 'Romeo-class' subs are INDEED very easy to track and destroy if they are moving. But if they are sitting on the bottom in fairly shallow water, they are very DIFFICULT to find, and they can stay down there for DAYS, just waiting for a target to come by.

As for 'tracking,' they all left port at the same time, FIFTY of them. With all the different noises they all make, and all going in different directions like cockroaches.... when the lights are turned on, the chances are we only 'know' where 4-6 of these boats might be. The REST of them are sitting quietly on the bottom and awaiting instructions from 'fearless leader.'


It is also imprtant to remember that only a dozen of the subs deployed were this old, as many of them are of much newer vintage, and much smaller too."