Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country's southern waters near Okinawa.
The submarine left Japanese waters shortly after it was spotted and a reconnaissance aircraft and destroyer were monitoring its movements, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said. Tokyo also was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
If the submarine's origin is identified, Japan will take ``necessary steps,'' Hosoda said, without elaborating.
Kyodo News quoted unidentified defense officials as saying that the vessel may be a Chinese nuclear submarine.
Guess it's time for the war in the Pacific to take off again.
As a sidenote:
GorenfeldJane's Defense Weekly is reporting this week that Kim Jong-Il, unstable North Korean dictator (I wrote about his kidnapping habit in the British Guardian) may be able to target California with sea-launched missiles. His know-how, the Reuters story relates, comes from 12 ex-Soviet submarines that fell into his hands. They came with their original launch tubes and stabilizing gear intact. Where does Kim get those wonderful toys?
Funny story: According to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency do ents from 1994 (which you can browse here), they were furnished by Reverend Moon.
Robert Parry, the ace reporter who broke the Iran-Contra story, obtained these files through the Freedom of Information Act while writing his 2000 story, "Rev. Moon, North Korea and the Bushes," about Moon's gifts to the Communist regime. Read on, if you dare. (Glossary: KN = North Korea)
That's some deep .
Yeah, we all know the Russians never had subs off our coast, we never had subs off theirs, and neither side ever knew about the other having subs there.Guess it's time for the war in the Pacific to take off again.
Seriously, the US and Russia played cat and mouse like this for a good 20 years, we never nuked them, they never nuked us.
After Stalin, they weren't nuts.Seriously, the US and Russia played cat and mouse like this for a good 20 years, we never nuked them, they never nuked us.
Japan continues to chase the sub that breached its waters...
BBCJapan chasing mystery submarine
Japan's defence agency is yet to confirm the sub's iden y
Japan's navy is chasing an unidentified submarine which was spotted inside the country's waters on Wednesday.
The Japanese defence agency reportedly believes the sub is Chinese because of its cruising sound, but a cabinet spokesman refused to confirm this.
Hiroyuki Hosoda said identifying the sub was difficult because it had not surfaced and did not appear to be heading towards a specific country.
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So that's how they get all those pirated DVDs over here...
So, now we've gone from black helicopters to mystery subs?
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