US Says North Korean Submarine Missing (cnn.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The North Korean regime lost contact with one of its submarines earlier this week, three U.S. officials familiar with the latest information told CNN. According to CNN, the U.S. military had been observing the submarine operate off North Korea's east coast when the vessel stopped, and U.S. spy satellites, aircraft and ships have been secretly watching for days as the North Korean navy searched for the missing sub. The U.S. is unsure if the missing vessel is adrift under the sea or whether it has sunk, the officials said, but believes it suffered some type of failure during an exercise. This comes after North Korea has threatened to use nuclear weapons at any time and turn its military posture to "pre-emptive attack" mode.

Comments

Kim Jong-un no doubt has a different story

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't wait to here it. Probably something about it being the worlds greatest stealth submarine that even NK can't see it.

In other news . . .

[user no. 590291]

. . . a United States submarine has reported the loss of one MK 48 torpedo.

Re:In other news . . .

[user no. 590291]

True--the torpedo probably cost more.